First, it can be used as a textbook for an operating systems course at either the advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate level.
It is most beneficial to reference the system source code when using the book, but the book can be read independently, too. Second, system programmers can use the book as a reference to gain better understanding of how the kernel works and to compare algorithms used in the UNIX system to algorithms used in other operating systems.
Finally, programmers on UNIX systems can gain a deeper understanding of how their programs interact with the system and thereby code more-efficient, sophisticated programs. While the course centered on reading the source code for the system, I found that understanding the code was easier once the concepts of the algorithms had been mastered.
I have attempted to keep the descriptions of algorithms in this book as simple as possible, reflecting in a small way the simplicity and elegance of the system it describes. Thus, the book is not a line-by-line rendition of the system written in English; it is a description of the general flow of the various algorithms, and most important, a description of how they interact with each other. Algorithms are presented in a C-like pseudo-code to aid the reader in understanding the natural language description, and their names correspond to the procedure names in the kernel.
Figures depict the relationship between various data structures as the system manipulates them. In later chapters, small C programs illustrate many system concepts as they manifest themselves to users. In the interests of space and clarity, these examples do not usually check for error conditions, something that should always be done when writing programs. I have run them on System V; except for programs that exercise features specific to System V, they should run on other versions of the system, too.
Many exercises originally prepared for the course have been included at the end of each chapter, and they are a key part of the book. Some exercises are straightforward, designed to illustrate concepts brought out in the text. Others are more difficult, designed to help the reader understand the system at a deeper level.
Finally, some are exploratory in nature, designed for investigation as a research problem. WinToUSB 6. Windows 11 Installation Assistant. VMware Player Raspberry Pi OS.
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Linux distributions support dozens of programming languages. First released in , the LLVM project provides an alternative cross-platform open-source compiler for many languages.
A common feature of Unix-like systems, Linux includes traditional specific-purpose programming languages targeted at scripting, text processing and system configuration and management in general. Linux distributions support shell scripts, awk, sed and make.
Many programs also have an embedded programming language to support configuring or programming themselves. For example, regular expressions are supported in programs like grep and locate, the traditional Unix MTASendmail contains its own Turing complete scripting system, and the advanced text editor GNU Emacs is built around a general purpose Lisp interpreter.
Guile Scheme acts as an extension language targeting the GNU system utilities, seeking to make the conventionally small, static, compiledC programs of Unix design rapidly and dynamically extensible via an elegant, functional high-level scripting system; many GNU programs can be compiled with optional Guile bindings to this end. Both support a wide variety of languages. The Linux kernel is a widely ported operating system kernel, available for devices ranging from mobile phones to supercomputers; it runs on a highly diverse range of computer architectures, including the hand-held ARM-based iPAQ and the IBMmainframesSystem z9 or System z The kernel also runs on architectures that were only ever intended to use a manufacturer-created operating system, such as Macintosh computers with both PowerPC and Intel processors , PDAs, video game consoles, portable music players, and mobile phones.
There are several industry associations and hardware conferences devoted to maintaining and improving support for diverse hardware under Linux, such as FreedomHEC. Over time, support for different hardware has improved in Linux, resulting in any off-the-shelf purchase having a 'good chance' of being compatible. Besides the Linux distributions designed for general-purpose use on desktops and servers, distributions may be specialized for different purposes including: computer architecture support, embedded systems, stability, security, localization to a specific region or language, targeting of specific user groups, support for real-time applications, or commitment to a given desktop environment.
Furthermore, some distributions deliberately include only free software. As of , over four hundred Linux distributions are actively developed, with about a dozen distributions being most popular for general-purpose use. The popularity of Linux on standard desktop computers and laptops has been increasing over the years.
No single official Linux desktop exists: rather desktop environments and Linux distributions select components from a pool of free and open-source software with which they construct a GUI implementing some more or less strict design guide. GNOME, for example, has its human interface guidelines as a design guide, which gives the human—machine interface an important role, not just when doing the graphical design, but also when considering people with disabilities, and even when focusing on security.
The collaborative nature of free software development allows distributed teams to perform language localization of some Linux distributions for use in locales where localizing proprietary systems would not be cost-effective. For example, the Sinhalese language version of the Knoppix distribution became available significantly before Microsoft translated Windows XP into Sinhalese.
The performance of Linux on the desktop has been a controversial topic; [ citation needed ] for example in Con Kolivas accused the Linux community of favoring performance on servers. He quit Linux kernel development out of frustration with this lack of focus on the desktop, and then gave a 'tell all' interview on the topic.
Projects such as Upstart and systemd aim for a faster boot time; the Wayland and Mir projects aim at replacing X11 while enhancing desktop performance, security and appearance. Many popular applications are available for a wide variety of operating systems. For example, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.
Furthermore, some applications initially developed for Linux, such as Pidgin, and GIMP, were ported to other operating systems including Windows and macOS due to their popularity. In addition, a growing number of proprietary desktop applications are also supported on Linux, [85] such as Autodesk Maya and The Foundry's Nuke in the high-end field of animation and visual effects; see the list of proprietary software for Linux for more details.
There are also several companies that have ported their own or other companies' games to Linux, with Linux also being a supported platform on both the popular Steam and Desura digital-distribution services. Commonly, either a free software application will exist which does the functions of an application found on another operating system, or that application will have a version that works on Linux, such as with Skype and some video games like Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2.
Furthermore, the Wine project provides a Windows compatibility layer to run unmodified Windows applications on Linux. It is sponsored by commercial interests including CodeWeavers, which produces a commercial version of the software. Since , Google has also provided funding to the Wine project. In other cases, where there is no Linux port of some software in areas such as desktop publishing [89] and professional audio, [90] [91] [92] there is equivalent software available on Linux.
It is also possible to run applications written for Android on other versions of Linux using Anbox. Besides externally visible components, such as X window managers, a non-obvious but quite central role is played by the programs hosted by freedesktop. A display server is another component, which for the longest time has been communicating in the X11 display server protocol with its clients; prominent software talking X11 includes the X.
Org Server and Xlib. Frustration over the cumbersome X11 core protocol, and especially over its numerous extensions, has led to the creation of a new display server protocol, Wayland. Installing, updating and removing software in Linux is typically done through the use of package managers such as the Synaptic Package Manager, PackageKit, and Yum Extender.
While most major Linux distributions have extensive repositories, often containing tens of thousands of packages, not all the software that can run on Linux is available from the official repositories. Alternatively, users can install packages from unofficial repositories, download pre-compiled packages directly from websites, or compile the source code by themselves.
All these methods come with different degrees of difficulty; compiling the source code is in general considered a challenging process for new Linux users, but it is hardly needed in modern distributions and is not a method specific to Linux. Linux distributions have also become popular in the netbook market, with many devices such as the Asus Eee PC and Acer Aspire One shipping with customized Linux distributions installed.
In , Google announced its Chrome OS as a minimal Linux-based operating system, using the Chrome browser as the main user interface. Chrome OS does not run any non-web applications, except for the bundled file manager and media player a certain level of support for Android applications was added in later versions.
Linux distributions have long been used as server operating systems, and have risen to prominence in that area; Netcraft reported in September , that eight of the ten other two with 'unknown' OS most reliable internet hosting companies ran Linux distributions on their web servers, [97] with Linux in the top position.
In June , Linux distributions represented five of the top ten, FreeBSD three of ten, and Microsoft two of ten; [98] since February , Linux distributions represented six of the top ten, FreeBSD three of ten, and Microsoft one of ten, [99] with Linux in the top position.
Linux distributions have become increasingly popular on mainframes, partly due to pricing and the open-source model. Linux distributions are also dominant as operating systems for supercomputers. Several operating systems for smart devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, and in-vehicle infotainment IVI systems, are based on Linux.
Android has become the dominant mobile operating system for smartphones, running on Continuing the trend, Palm later acquired by HP produced a new Linux-derived operating system, webOS, which is built into its line of Palm Pre smartphones. Nokia's Maemo, one of the earliest mobile operating systems, was based on Debian.
Tizen is a project within The Linux Foundation. Several Samsung products are already running Tizen, Samsung Gear 2 being the most significant example.
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