Category:Operating system technology

B

• ► Booting‎ (3 C, 41 P)

C

• ► Command shells‎ (2 C, 30 P)
• ► Concurrency (computer science)‎ (7 C, 26 P)
• ► Concurrency control‎ (3 C, 74 P)
• ► CP/M technology‎ (8 P)

D

• ► Device drivers‎ (2 C, 53 P)
• ► DOS technology‎ (1 C, 34 P)

E

• ► Executable file formats‎ (1 C, 32 P)

F

• ► Computer file systems‎ (19 C, 136 P)

J

• ► Just enough operating systems‎ (4 P)

K

• ► Operating system kernels‎ (5 C, 27 P)

L

• ► Linux kernel features‎ (2 C, 52 P)
• ► Live USB‎ (1 C, 41 P)

M

• ► Memory management‎ (5 C, 63 P)

O

• ► Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media‎ (3 C, 92 P)

P

• ► Package management systems‎ (4 C, 32 P)
• ► Process (computing)‎ (5 C, 53 P)

S

• ► Scheduling (computing)‎ (4 C, 19 P)
• ► Operating system security‎ (1 C, 63 P)

T

• ► Threads (computing)‎ (47 P)

2

• 2 GB limit

A

• Application binary interface
• Asynchronous System Trap

B

• Binary Application Markup Language
• Microreboot
• BSD disklabel

C

• Chain loading
• Computer multitasking
• Computer terminal
• Concurrent computing
• Control register
• Control-Alt-Delete
• Core common area
• CPU shielding
• Crash reporter
• Crash-only software
• Cyclic executive

D

• Deferred Procedure Call
• Delegated administration
• Device driver
• Dirty bit
• Dynamic loading

E

• Environment variable
• Epoch (reference date)
• ERIKA Enterprise
• Event flag
• Event monitoring

F

• Fast user switching
• Filter (software)
• Flag word

G

• General protection fault
• Graphics device interface

H

• Hardware abstraction
• Hibernation (computing)
• Hybrid kernel

I

• Interrupt handler

I cont.

• Interruptible operating system

J

• Jiffy (time)

K

• KDL
• Kernel (computing)

L

• L4 microkernel family
• Library (computing)
• Load (computing)
• Loadable kernel module
• Login session

M

• Megalithic kernel
• Microkernel
• Mode setting
• Monolithic kernel
• Multi-user
• Multiple Independent Levels of Security
• Multiseat configuration

N

• National CSS
• Network operating system
• Network redirector
• Non-blocking algorithm

O

• Object-oriented operating system
• Opaak
• Opaque binary blob
• OpenCable Application Platform
• Operating system abstraction layer
• Hobbyist operating system development
• Operating system-level virtualization

P

• Pilot-link
• Position-independent code
• Preemption (computing)
• Process (computing)
• Process management (computing)
• Protected procedure call
• Provisioning

R

• Radix Protector
• RDMA over Converged Ethernet

R cont.

• Read-copy-update
• Real-time clock alarm
• Real-time operating system
• Remote direct memory access
• Remote procedure call
• Restricted shell
• Ring (computer security)
• Rpath
• Runnable Userspace Meta Programs

S

• Safe mode
• Security-focused operating system
• Segmentation fault
• Separation kernel
• Separation of mechanism and policy
• Operating system shell
• Shutdown (computing)
• Single address space operating system
• Single user mode
• Sleep mode
• Spooling
• Program status word
• Status register
• Supervisory program
• System call
• System Contention Scope
• System image
• System time

T

• Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
• Time-sharing

U

• User space

V

• VDSO
• Virtual machine

W

• Working set

X

• X86 debug register

Y

• Year 2038 problem
• Yield method