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Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 6/e
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This book presents the nature and characteristics of modern-day operating systems clearly and completely, and serves as both a basic reference and an up-to-date survey of the state of the art.Abstract:
Serving as both a basic reference and an up-to-date survey of the state of the art, this book covers the concepts, structure, and mechanisms of operating systems. Stallings presents the nature and characteristics of modern-day operating systems clearly and completely. Updated treatment of Windows as a case study to cover Windows Vista. Online animations with references incorporated throughout. A new chapter on Embedded Operating Systems. Part Six (Distributed Systems and Security) moved online, reducing the cost and size of the book without loss of content. Expanded coverage of security. New figures added, with many existing figures updated to enhance clarity. A useful reference for programmers, systems engineers, network designers and others involved in the design of computer products, information system and computer system personnel.read more
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A Survey of Virtualization Technologies: Towards a New Taxonomic Proposal
Luis Eduardo Sepúlveda Rodríguez,Julio C. Chavarro-Porras,John A. Sanabria-Ordoñez,Harold Castro,Jeanna Matthews +4 more
TL;DR: In this article , a taxonomy of virtualization technologies is proposed, which combines the abstraction level and virtual machine type approaches, providing the reader with a means to visualize virtualization systems.
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Teaching operating system at the technical university-Sofia
TL;DR: The paper presents the approach to teaching operating systems for the students of Computer Systems and Technologies using a concurrent C/C++ language, specifically developed for giving experience with concurrency concepts.
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A Comparison of Processes and Threads Creation
TL;DR: In this paper, the differences between processes and threads in the Linux operating system are discussed, and the advantages and disadvantages of using threads and processes are summarized with a recommendation when it is better to use processes or threads.
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UNIX File System
Yukun Liu,Yong Yue,Liwei Guo +2 more
TL;DR: This chapter will discuss the file system structure, file concept in UNIX, how to manage file and file system, and the file representation and storage and will also focus on the local file system.
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A model for systematic monitoring and debugging of starvation bugs in multicore software
TL;DR: A model for monitoring and debugging Starvation bugs as a type of concurrency bugs in multicore software is proposed and is composed into three phases: monitoring, detecting and debugging.