A Short Introduction to Operating Systems (M. Burgess)

Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces

This PDF covers the following topics related to Operating Systems : Introduction to Operating Systems, Virtualization, Dialogue on Virtualization, The Abstraction: The Process, Scheduling, A Dialogue on Memory Virtualization, The Abstraction: Address Spaces, Interlude: Memory API, Segmentation, Free-Space Management, Paging, The VAX/VMS Virtual Memory System, Concurrency: An Introduction, Interlude: Thread API, Locks, Lock-based Concurrent Data Structures, Condition Variables, Semaphores, Event-based Concurrency , I/O Devices, Hard Disk Drives, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAIDs), Interlude: File and Directories, File System Implementation, Locality and The Fast File System, Crash Consistency: FSCK and Journaling, Log-structured File Systems, Data Integrity and Protection, Distributed Systems, Sun&

Author(s): Remzi H. Arpaci-dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-dusseau, University of Wisconsin madison

643 Pages

Introduction to Operating Systems Lectures

This note explains the following topics: OS Internals, C Programming and Makefiles, Bit-wise Operators, File Systems, Processes, File Descriptors, Threads, File Systems Internals, Synchronization, Deadlock.

Author(s): Andrew H. Fagg

NA Pages

Introduction to Operating Systems by Dr. Mark Humphrys

This note describes the following topics: UNIX or Linux, Pipes and redirection, Text editors, Case sensitivity, Filenames and Special Characters, UNIX file protections, UNIX directory protections, Shell, Shell utilities, Search engine, PC operating systems, Server operating systems, Mobile operating systems, OS structure, Processes, Memory, Files, Windows command line.

Author(s): Dr. Mark Humphrys

NA Pages

Operating Systems and Middleware Supporting Controlled Interaction

In this book, you will learn about all three kinds of interaction. This book describes how all these kinds of support are provided both by operating systems and by additional software layered on top of operating systems, which is known as middleware. Topics covered includes: Threads, Scheduling, Synchronization and Deadlocks, Atomic Transactions, Virtual Memory, Processes and Protection, Files and Other Persistent Storage, Networking, Messaging, RPC, and Web Services, Security.

Author(s): Max Hailperin

NA Pages

Operating System by Bighnaraj Naik

This note explains the following topics: Evolution and Types of operating systems, operating system services for process management, Concept of process and Process synchronization, Process Management and Scheduling, Tools and Constructs for Concurrency, Detection and Prevention of deadlocks, Memory Management paging, virtual memory management, Virtual Memory, Dynamic Resource Allocation, File Systems, Logical file system &

Author(s): Bighnaraj Naik

86 Pages

Operating Systems by Steven Hand

This note aims to explain the structure and functions of an operating system, and illustrate the key operating system aspects. Topics covered includes: Introduction to Operating Systems, Processes and Scheduling, Memory Management, I/O and Device Management, Protection, Filing Systems, Case Study: Unix and Windows NT.

Author(s): Steven Hand

168 Pages

Distributed Operating Systems

This note explains the following topics: Processes, Fault tolerance, Communication, Synchronization - general purpose algorithms, synchronization in databases, Consistency and replication, Naming, Security, Cluster systems, Grid systems and Cloud computing.

Author(s): Adam Kozakiewicz

NA Pages

Operating Systems by Ding Yuan

This lecture note discusses the principles in the design and implementation of operating systems software. Topics covered includes: Introduction to operating systems concepts, process management, memory management, file systems for both hard drive and SSD, virtualization, and distributed operating systems. The laboratory exercises will require implementing a simple, but functional operating system from ground up.

Author(s): Ding Yuan , University Of Toronto

NA Pages

Practical File System Design with the Be File Sysytem (Dominic Giampaolo)

This book contains the following topics: Introduction to the BeOS and BFS, File systems, Data Structures of BFS, Attributes, Indexing, and Queries, Allocation Policies, Disk Block Cache, File System Performance, The Vnode Layer and User-Level API.

Author(s): Dominic Giampaolo

247 Pages

A Short Introduction to Operating Systems (M. Burgess)

This book covers the following topics: What is an operating system, Single-task OS, Multi-tasking and multi-user OS, Processes and Thread, Memory and storage, Networks: Services and protocols, TCP/IP Networks and Security: design considerations.

Author(s): M. Burgess

NA Pages