Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Operating System: Open Source & Distributed Systems

Open Source Operating System:-
The distribution of original source materials that can be studied, altered and built upon with the result once again freely distributed are called Open source.

Distributed Systems Operating System:-
A distributed system is a collection of physically separate, possibly heterogeneous computers systems that are networked to provide the users with access to the various resources that the system maintains. A Network is a communication path between two or more systems. Distributed system depends on networking for their functionality.

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