Talk:Operating system

Real-time

someone should point out that real-time operating systems are defined to be operating systems with exactly known wall-clock response time. that is, they respond to specific requests in specific amounts of time, like 2 seconds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.28.61 (talk) 18:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Under the 'Types of operating systems' section in the 'Real-time' paragraph the writer starts to talk about event driven vs time shared systems. I fail to see how these design notions are specific for real time operating systems. I would agree that in a real time OS these things require a closer look, but the concepts are so universal that they are wider (and older) than the concept of the OS itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.87.238.229 (talk) 17:45, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Curious

What does this sentence from the article actually mean? 70.247.167.104 (talk) 06:03, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

All methods require some level of hardware support, which doesn't exist in all computers.

Simple Defination of Operating System

In Simple way we can discribe as o/s is a collection of softwares that work as interface between computer hardware and operating system.

Some mention of the following might be in order: Atlas Supervisor, seeing as it has been descried as "the most significant breakthrough in the history of operating systems." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 12:16, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 April 2014

2.68.231.247 (talk) 21:45, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Empty request. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 22:28, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2014

2.51.250.32 (talk) 17:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. NiciVampireHeart 17:31, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Linux Kernel is mentioned without reference to Linus Torvalds. Several other names are cited in the article. The strategy that Linus used to develop, improve, and register changes to the official kernel, namely the internet, is noteworthy as it used the world wide web "system of operating systems" to foster a new UNIX like OS. Lmanderville (talk) 13:32, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

OS vs. system software

"An operating system (OS) is a collection of software". Oric-1 (my old computer) links here, and similar ZX Spectrum lists Sinclair BASIC as an operating system.. These and similar old computers had what I would not consider operating systems (in the modern sense) or what..? [And DOS..] Why am I bringing this up. They certainly are system software. They act as a shell and provide a user interface and I consider that a part of an OS. Their ROMS are a collection of software routines, but are they one software, not a collection? A kernel on it's own (such as the Linux kernel) is not a full OS or would you disagree? "Linux" with a shell (and/or only GUI) is. Mac OS (older versions) are also not an operating system without their UI.

System software: "The operating system (prominent examples being z/OS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux), allows the parts of a computer to work together by performing tasks like transferring data between memory and disks or rendering output onto a display device. It also provides a platform to run high-level system software and application software." [.. and then a separate example..] "A user interface". UI is system software, is it being treated as separate from the OS? comp.arch (talk) 15:28, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

controls the system hardware including memory, processor time and storage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.101.223.69 (talk) 20:03, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 November 2014

Linux is not an operating System its a kernel, if you're talking about the operating system that uses it you're talking about GNU/Linux. thanks. Sand49 (talk) 12:47, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

See the second last box at the top of the page on Talk:Linux. As that box explains, we refer to "Linux" as on OS because that's what the sources say. Stickee (talk) 13:22, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2014

could you please change Linux to GNU/Linux, as linux is just the kernel where GNU/Linux is the operating system. Thanks Sand49 (talk) 06:10, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

See above response. Stickee (talk) 10:07, 12 November 2014 (UTC)