A presentation by Lewis Betterton

What is an Operating System?

• Boot process

• Drivers• Hardware

and resource control

• Manages programs

Apple II

Commodore 64

IBM-PC

Modern Operating Systems and Hardware

• Advanced Graphics (Aero etc.)

• Improved File Management systems

• New Technologies

DOS (early windows) Windows 3.1 Windows 95

Windows 98SE (Second Edition) Windows NT 4 Windows 2000

Windows XP Windows Vista

Windows 7

Ubuntu Desktop Red Hat

Centos 5.5

Apple II OS Mac OS X

FreeBSD FreeDOS

DOSBOX(emulator) Unix (Linux based on)

http://www.freebsd.org/

Consoles:•Microsoft Xbox 360

•Sony PS3

Phones:•Apple IPhone 4•Apple Ipad 1, 2

•Samsung Android

Microsoft Windows XP running on a Tablet PC

Windows Operating Systems

Linux and Macintosh Operating Systems

• Windows 8• Mac OS X Lion• Ubuntu 11.04

Windows Developer Preview system requirements

CPU Memory Graphics card HDD

1 Ghz 1 GB(x86) DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0 (required for Aero)

16GB

1 Ghz 2 GB(x64) 20GB

Mac OS X version 10.7

X86-64 CPU Memory

Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

HDD

Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7

At least 2GB

7 GB recommended

Ubuntu 11.04 released on 13 October 2011

X86-64 CPU Memory Other HDD

1 GHz Pentium or better

processor (such as Dual Core,

Core 2 Duo, i3, i5,i7… )

384 M RAM  512 MB recommended

CD/DVD drive or USB

5GB HDD10GB recommended

Ubuntu 11.04 Feature Preview

Questions?

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/operating_system.html

http://www.google.com.au

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6268

http://blog.sudobits.com/2011/07/21/system-requirements-for-ubuntu-11-04/