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  2. Usage share of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The most numerous type of device with an operating system are embedded systems. Not all embedded systems have operating systems, instead running their application code on the "bare metal"; of those that do have operating systems, a high percentage are standalone or do not have a web browser, which makes their usage share difficult to measure.

  3. macOS - Wikipedia

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    At macOS's core is a POSIX-compliant operating system built on top of the XNU kernel, [81] (which incorporated large parts of FreeBSD kernel [14]) and FreeBSD userland [14] for the standard Unix facilities available from the command line interface. Apple has released this family of software as a free and open source operating system named Darwin.

  4. List of BSD operating systems - Wikipedia

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    NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) computer operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. Noted for its portability and quality of design and implementation, it is often ...

  5. Linux - Wikipedia

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    Linux is the leading operating system on servers (over 96.4% of the top one million web servers' operating systems are Linux), [26] leads other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, and is used on all of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers [d] (as of November 2017, having gradually displaced all competitors). [27] [28] [29]

  6. macOS version history - Wikipedia

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    The history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9 , was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac computers since their ...

  7. Comparison of user features of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and some operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred to as "DOS" (which is also the generic acronym for disk operating system).

  8. z/OS - Wikipedia

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    An IBM System Z10 mainframe computer on which z/OS can run. z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM z/Architecture mainframes, introduced by IBM in October 2000. [2] It derives from and is the successor to OS/390, which in turn was preceded by a string of MVS versions.

  9. macOS Monterey - Wikipedia

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    The operating system is named after Monterey Bay, continuing the trend of releases named after California locations since 2013's 10.9 Mavericks. macOS Monterey is the final version of macOS that supports the 2015–2017 MacBook Air, Retina MacBook Pro, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro, as its successor, macOS Ventura, drops ...