04
Mar
Computer Software in Plain English
leelefever asked:
www.commoncraft.com A short explanation of how operating systems and programs work together to make computers useful and customizable.
I think wow people actually pay for this shit
March 6th, 2010 at 12:04 pmlol i dont understand at all
March 8th, 2010 at 5:36 pmI think nice and clean,,thanks
March 9th, 2010 at 12:40 pmdgdsfgfgdfg
March 9th, 2010 at 9:20 pmI think what timezone are u in? for the past decades i heard no one ever say a website was a OS
March 12th, 2010 at 9:34 amLinux is a OS it was created by a group of computer hackers and was used for that purpose untill people adepted it for use on servers
March 13th, 2010 at 9:16 pmI assume you mean that it should say GNU/Linux. Most folks just abbreviate it to Linux and it is most definitely an Operating System (OS). It manages computer resources, provides a user interface, and launches applications.
March 15th, 2010 at 4:32 pmI think check my channel out i have a new site and i will be making tutorial
March 18th, 2010 at 3:36 pmi really want a laptop
March 21st, 2010 at 1:41 amI think “Technically” an OS is the smallest piece of software needed to run any other software, ie a layer that “simplifies” access to hardware.
During the 80′s some people started diluting the meaning by calling other software bundled with the kernel for “OS”, often user land tools, like a CLI and/or libraries. This has been used by otherwise great men, like RMS, to further their own goals.
Nowadays people claim anything to be an OS, like a website (ie webos) and/or a complete Linux distribution.
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:47 amwell technically linux is not a OS
March 25th, 2010 at 6:32 pmGoto:
osoftware(dot)webs(dot)com
For free software and games, register now!
March 27th, 2010 at 10:39 amI’d like to run Mac in my car =P
March 29th, 2010 at 2:16 amosoftware(dot)webs(dot)com
for free software aswell as the whole collection of these videos!!!
March 30th, 2010 at 6:13 pmI do know Linux it is originated from Minix
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:37 pmI said it was unix based…”Darwin Kernel”
April 5th, 2010 at 5:00 amwhich is unix based
This is like saying that Linux is UNIX. Come on! Do you know what Linux mean? Linux Is Not UniX. OS X is based on NEXTSTEP and FreeBSD. It is NOT a UNIX kernel but it is compliant with the UNIX standard thus providing every command line tool and shell that UNIX support, just as Linux do.
April 5th, 2010 at 9:29 pmOhhhh Shit!
April 6th, 2010 at 1:16 amOh god.. Who cares Mac’s are a combination proprietary software/hardware. to be honest the os mac uses has a Unix kernel (darwin). Stop arguing… its pointless and redundant.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:31 amNo shit sherlock..
April 10th, 2010 at 4:56 amWhat do you think OS stands for?
April 13th, 2010 at 1:58 amMy point is that when you throw virtualization in it, using the name Mac instead of Mac OS to define the operating system just doesn’t make sense. You see? You have a Mac that run Mac that run Windows that could run Mac?! How can you run a Macintosh on windows when it’s not a software? But you could run Mac OS on Windows on Mac OS on a Mac. Now that make sense because we talk about software.
April 13th, 2010 at 5:16 amWhy does one emulating the other have to do with what you call it? If you use a Mac to emulate Windows, it’s still just a Mac with the right software.
April 13th, 2010 at 4:05 pmYou do realize that doing this is wrong. Macintosh is describing the computer’s hardware, OS X is the operating system. You can’t shorten Mac OS to Mac because Mac can run Windows and Linux, which now just doesn’t make sense since you can’t run an OS on an other one. You need virtualization software to do so and even then, you can’t run a virtualized OS inside an other one which mean that you can’t run a virtual Windows on a virtual OS X. Then you can and can’t run Windows on Mac, if your right.
April 14th, 2010 at 3:28 am