An operating system (OS) is a software system that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. An operating system is responsible for controlling access to, and the efficient management of, system resources (for example, memory allocation, input and output devices, and processing time). This is done by acting as an intermediary between programs and computer hardware.
In this section, you will learn about the way the operating system is stored in the main memory, as well as how it is located and booted differently by Linux and Windows systems.
The two major groups of operating systems are Unix-like systems (for example, Linux and macOS) and Microsoft Windows. Linux is open source, which means that all the source programming files are available for download for viewing and modification, and therefore...
