Operating System

PC Disk Formatting
This article gives the information related to “Formatting”. Formatting is a process of preparing the hard disk for a particular operating system. Formatting a hard disk puts special magnetic marks of tracks and sectors, on the hard disk surface. Sectors and tracks does not exist on a hard disk until and unless it has been formatted. When a new hard disk is bought it just likes a plain sheet of […]

Do You Know What is Formatting?

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In today’s world of cloud computing an operating system named Ubuntu has boomed the other operating systems with its advantages and performance. So i would prefer to light out more information on the system with its history and transformation over the years. Let’s start with some basic information about Ubuntu, i.e. what is Ubuntu?     Ubuntu is an operating system developed by Canonical Ltd. The company is owned by […]

Linux/Ubuntu Operating System

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Mutex Lock
Synchronization in Window XP   The Windows XP operating system is a multithreaded kernel that provides support for real-time applications and multiple processors. When the Windows  XP kernel accesses a global resource on a uniprocessor system, it temporarily masks interrupts for all interrupt handlers that may also access the global resource On a multiprocessor system, Windows XP protects access to global resources using spinlocks. Just as in Solaris, the kernel […]

Synchronization in Various Operating Systems

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