Recent questions under tag operating system

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Is it possible to install Ubuntu operating system on bare metal from the an existing VDI file ?

posted Dec 8, 2018 by Harshita

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Do You know why safari not responding any fix solution?

posted Nov 20, 2018 by Alena Winslet

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Process of recurrent computerisation process?

posted Aug 29, 2018 by Namatuungo Norah

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Ive been hosting my rails apps on freebsd Anyone have preferences which OS to host on?

posted Aug 5, 2018 by anonymous

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When the process issues an I/O request: a) It is placed in an I/O queue b) It is placed in a waiting queue...

posted Jun 2, 2018 by anonymous

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What are the attributes of process control block?

posted May 28, 2018 by anonymous

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How to find out stack grows upward (towards higher memory address) or downward (towards lower memory address) ?

posted May 20, 2018 by Harshita

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Is fragmentation possible in data link layer?

posted May 17, 2018 by anonymous

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Does variable length partition schema suffers from internal fragmentation?

posted May 10, 2018 by anonymous

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Can we always prevent a deadlock from happening by providing for additional resources of the same kind?

posted May 10, 2018 by anonymous

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What's the basic difference between hardware and software solutions for critical section problem?

posted May 4, 2018 by anonymous

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In multiprocessing OS each processor takes a process individually or divide each process for multiple processors?

posted May 2, 2018 by anonymous

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What is Tizen operating system?

posted Feb 12, 2018 by Panchika Trivedi

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First operating system designed using C programming language? [MCQ]

posted Nov 24, 2017 by anonymous

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Will busy waiting solution suffer from Priority Inversion, if yes how, if not then why not?

posted Nov 8, 2017 by anonymous

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What are the necessary conditions for deadlock to happen and why?

posted Nov 2, 2017 by anonymous

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Is address line will impact on ram size and OS?

posted Oct 15, 2017 by Naveen Kumar

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what are the performance difference between user space thread and kernel space threads?

posted Oct 15, 2017 by anonymous

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How can we detect OS of the client machine using JavaScript?

posted Aug 7, 2017 by Satish Mn

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Which are various file allocation strategy and which one is best? why?

posted Jul 20, 2017 by anonymous

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Enhanced Second-Chance Algorithm vs simpler clock algorithm

posted May 31, 2017 by anonymous

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What different kinds of SmartPhone OS are there?

posted Mar 3, 2017 by Atindra Kumar Nath

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OS: How I can see number of threads belong one process running in machine ?

posted Nov 20, 2016 by Neeraj Mishra

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OS: When a thread is considered as worker thread and how it's functionality is different from other threads ?

posted Nov 20, 2016 by Neeraj Mishra

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OS: Does the stack always grow in upward direction or it is system dependent ?

posted Oct 1, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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OS: What is priority Inversion and priority inheritance ?

posted Sep 22, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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How spooling removes the drawback of serial processing?

posted Jul 18, 2016 by anonymous

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What is the maximum size of binary can be run on 32-bit operating system?

posted Jun 16, 2016 by anonymous

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of multiprogramming?

posted Jun 6, 2016 by Mike Kipngetich Bore

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OS: Does the OS scheduling depends on the underlying hardware ?

posted Jun 1, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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OS: What are the advantages of having multiprocessor over the single processor in a system ?

posted May 31, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of an inverted page table as compared to a normal page table?

posted May 26, 2016 by anonymous

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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why?

posted May 12, 2016 by Hasan Raza

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Explain briefly about, processor, assembler, compiler, loader, linker and the functions executed by them.

posted May 12, 2016 by Hasan Raza

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Open system call in linux

posted May 10, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey

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What are the functionality performed by the OS after executable file is created of your code.

posted May 5, 2016 by anonymous

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What is starvation in context of multi-threading?

posted Apr 18, 2016 by anonymous

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How does swapping result in better memory management?

posted Apr 15, 2016 by Latha

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What is the best page size when designing an operating system?

posted Apr 15, 2016 by Latha

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When designing the file structure for an operating system, what attributes are considered?

posted Apr 15, 2016 by Latha

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OS: How does file descriptor duping works in linux operating system ?

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What are device drivers?

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Sathyasree

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What is root partition?

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Sathyasree

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Differentiate internal commands from external commands.

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Sathyasree

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OS: How does the re-direction work internally in unix system ?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What is plumbing / piping?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Sathaybama

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Why is partitioning and formatting a prerequisite to installing an operating system?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Sathaybama

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What is preemptive multitasking?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Sathaybama

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What are some pros and cons of a command line interface?

posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha

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What are the different types of CPU registers in a typical operating system design?

posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha