January 20, 2024

What do you mean by Open source OS? Explain any two open-source OS.

An open-source operating system is an operating system whose code has been made publicly and freely available to anyone who wants to see and modify it.

Any two open-source OS are:

  1. LINUX: Linux is an open source of powerful UNIX that runs on a variety of platforms including intel, APARC, Power pc, and DEC Alpha processor developed by Linux Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland as a college project. He released the version of Linux, including all the source code. it is a multiuser, multitasking, multiprogramming OS. Mainly popular for server systems.
  2. MINIX: Minix is an open-source OS with Unix. professor Andrew Tanenbaum of Vrije University in Amsterdam created Minix as an educational tool. To this end, Minix was developed with a small and well-documented microkernel-based design.

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