Operating System Design

Table of Contents

The Interface: One element of successful OS design
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Case studies
  • History

Kernel Architecture

  • Monolithic Kernel
    • Solaris
    • Linux
    • Windows 9x
    • BSD
  • Microkernel
    • GNU Hurd
    • MINIX
    • QNX
  • Exokernel
    • XOK
  • Hybrid Kernel
    • Mac OS X
    • Windows NT/XP
    • BeOS

Initialization

  • Bootloader
  • Hardware Initialization

Processes

  • Interrupts
  • Context Switching
  • Scheduling
    • First Come First Served
    • Shortest Process Next
    • Shortest Remaining Time
    • Round Robin Scheduling
    • Preemption
    • Priority Scheduling
  • Concurrent Processing
    • Deadlock
    • Livelock
  • Interprocess Communication
    • Locks
    • Signals
    • Semaphores
    • Monitors
    • Shared Memory
  • Threads (Lightweight Processes)
  • Fibers (Lightweight Threads)

Memory Management

  • Physical Memory
  • Segmentation
  • Virtual Memory
    • Paging
    • Swapping
  • Basics
    • Allocation Algorithms
  • Fault Tolerance

File Systems

  • Abstraction
  • Allocation Algorithms
    • Performance
  • Fault Tolerance
    • RAID
    • Journaling
    • Dealing with Bad Blocks
  • Case Studies
    • File Allocation Table (FAT)
    • NTFS
    • ext4
    • BFS
    • ReiserFS
    • HFS
    • ZFS

Security

  • Access Controls
    • Users
    • Resources
  • Privileges

Interface

  • Command line interfaces
  • Graphical user interfaces
    • Desktop environment
    • Configuration tools
    • User Ability

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