Operating System 2.0
We have completed the hardware & software topic, now let’s find out about operating systems.
What is an Operating System?
An operating system is the most important Software in a Phone or Computer, it is the heart operating beneath all other software/programmes. An Operating System receives requests from all the programmes in your computer and relate them with the hardware of your computer.
Let’s look at some examples of operating systems:Â
- Windows,Â
- macOS,Â
- iOS,Â
- Android, andÂ
- LinuxÂ
- Ubuntu (a Linux distribution, we’ll still discuss a lot more about this and also install Ubuntu to our computers virtually.)
These are some of the most well known Operating Systems in the world.
What do Operating Systems do?
Let’s watch another quick 1:30 video and understand the basics of what operating systems do.
Let us elaborate on the content of this video. See the flowchart in the picture below that shows the process of interaction between a user, hardware and software. You should not expect to see this entire process occur while using your computer or phone because it happens very quickly in split seconds.
Hover over each number to see details on what happen in each step.
Now that we learnt about operating systems, we can now discuss the operating system we will be using to build our machine to save the world with Dr. Agro Planti and his Programme Genesis. The operating system that we will be using is Linux, and we will learn about it in the next topic.
