Research types of operating systems that are currently avail

Research types of operating systems that are currently available and provide a scenario in which the operating system you chose would be appropriate to be used in this situation.

Explain why you think the choice you made would be applicable here.

Subject: Foundations of Information Technology ITS 1101

Solution

Operating systems are heart of computer. There are a number of operating systems in used in modern computers. Most client computers purchased in a retail outlet come with the operating system preloaded.

The purpose of an operating system is control the hardware components and peripherals implementing the functionality. Memory management is another task taken by the OS. This iis all done by the OS.

Each and every job done by the OS.

In modern os like windows, mac, unix/linux are used in research areas based in the requirement.

Most of the usage in research area is large data processing . IN the large data processing security is the major concern. SO Linux or Unix is preferable.

Mostlikely opearting system in the world is Windows it provides user friendly environment so an end user preferred this OS. In research industry people collect data from various resources so, they want to collect from an user interface which is user friendly to the user/customer. The collected data may be large or small or what ever it may be processed on windows machine or any other machine.

Unix-like systems run on a wide variety of computer architectures. They are used heavily for servers in business, as well as workstations in academic and engineering environments. Free UNIX variants, such as Linux and BSD, are popular in these areas.

The first step in selecting an OS is to ensure that the OS being considered fully supports the requirements of the end user. And check the security. Next, conduct research to make sure that sufficient hardware resources are available to support the OS. This includes such basic items as memory, processors, and disk space, as well as peripheral

devices such as scanners, sound cards, NICs, and removable storage. How much manpower is needed to maintain the os, the company might limit support to one or two operating systems and discourage, or even

disallow, the installation of any other OS. In the home environment, the ready availability of technical support

for an OS might be a determining factor

some factors before choosing the OS:¦

Security

Support

Cost

Availability

Usage

Platform