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  2. Bring your own operating system - Wikipedia

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    BYOOS has been made possible thanks to the ability to create USB pen drives and other external storage devices with 'live' operating system images containing all the necessary drivers to allow boot up and operation on any compatible computer. Bootable versions of Linux were available by 1993.

  3. Hobbyist operating system - Wikipedia

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    The development of a hobbyist operating system is one of the more involved and technical options for a computer hobbyist. The definition of a hobby operating system can sometimes be vague. It can be from the developer's view, where the developers do it just for fun or learning; it can also be seen from the user's view, where the users are only ...

  4. Buildroot - Wikipedia

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    Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that simplifies and automates the process of building a complete and bootable Linux environment for an embedded system, while using cross-compilation to allow building for multiple target platforms on a single Linux-based development system.

  5. How to Find Out if You Have the Most Updated Operating System

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    In the System window, you will find information about your computer, including the operating system version. The information displayed will include the Windows edition, system type (32-bit or 64 ...

  6. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    The operating system provides an interface between an application program and the computer hardware, so that an application program can interact with the hardware only by obeying rules and procedures programmed into the operating system. The operating system is also a set of services which simplify development and execution of application programs.

  7. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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    The term boot comes from the idea of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps: [5] the computer contains a tiny program (bootstrap loader) which will load and run a program found on a boot device. This program may itself be a small program designed to load a larger and more capable program, i.e., the full operating system.

  8. Cosmos (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    C# Open Source Managed Operating System (Cosmos) is a toolkit for building GUI and command-line based operating systems, written mostly in the programming language C# and small amounts of a high-level assembly language named X#. Cosmos is a backronym, [1] in that the acronym was chosen before the meaning.

  9. Huawei’s homegrown operating system, launched after the ...

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    Huawei executives had previously described the development of its own operating system as a "Plan B," as the company faced the prospect of being barred from using key hardware or software with U.S ...