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Welcome to an exciting world of operating systems (O/S) 

Usually a part of computer science, software engineering, programming and information technology courses but open for all enthusiasts to learn the basics. 

The App covers more than 125 topics on the subject divided into 14 units.

The App brings all the interesting topics in a flashcard which is easy to browse, revise and come back to another topic to learn. Some of topics Covered in this application are:

1.	Overview of computer operating systems

2.	Computer System Organization

3.	Operating System Structure

4.	Distributed system

5.	Operating System services

6.	System Calls

7.	System Programs

8.	Operating System Generation

9.	Operating-System Services

10.	Operating-System Interface

11.	Process Management

12.	Process Control Block

13.	Schedulers

14.	Context switch

15.	Operations on Processes

16.	Interprocess Communication

17.	Sockets

18.	Remote Procedure Calls

19.	Remote method invocation

20.	Threads

21.	Scheduling Criteria

22.	Scheduling Algorithms

23.	Multithreading Models

24.	Thread Libraries

25.	Threading Issues

26.	CPU scheduling

27.	Multiple-Processor Scheduling

28.	Symmetric Multithreading

29.	Thread Scheduling

30.	Solaris Scheduling

31.	Windows XP Scheduling

32.	Linux Scheduling

33.	Algorithm Evaluation

34.	Process Synchronization

35.	The Critical Section Problem

36.	Synchronization Hardware

37.	Semaphores

38.	Classic problems of synchronization

39.	Monitors

40.	Atomic Transactions

41.	Deadlocks

42.	Deadlock Characterization

43.	Methods for handling deadlocks

44.	Deadlock Prevention

45.	Deadlock Avoidance

46.	BankerÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s algorithm

47.	Deadlock Detection

48.	Recovery from Deadlock

49.	Memory Management Strategies

50.	Address Binding

51.	Logical versus Physical Address Space

52.	Dynamic Linking and Loading

53.	Swapping

54.	Contiguous Memory Allocation

55.	Fragmentation

56.	Paging

57.	Hardware Support in paging

58.	Shared Pages

59.	Segmentation

60.	Virtual memory

61.	System libraries

62.	Demand Paging

63.	Copy-on-Write

64.	Page Replacement

65.	FIFO Page Replacement

66.	Optimal Page Replacement

67.	LRU Page Replacement

68.	Enhanced Second-Chance Algorithm

69.	Allocation of Frames

70.	Thrashing

71.	Working-Set Model

72.	Page-Fault Frequency

73.	Memory-Mapped Files

74.	Shared Memory in the Win32 API

75.	Allocating Kernel Memory

76.	Slab Allocation

77.	File Concept

78.	File Operations

79.	File Types

80.	Directory Structure

81.	Directory

82.	File System Mounting

83.	File System Structure

84.	File System Implementation

85.	Directory Implementation

86.	Free Space Management

87.	Recovery

88.	Log-Structured File Systems

89.	Network file systems 

90.	Network file systems protocol

91.	Magnetic Disks

92.	Disk Structure

93.	Disk Attachment

94.	Disk Scheduling

95.	Disk Management

96.	Boot Block

97.	Bad Blocks

98.	Swap-Space Management

99.	I/O Systems

100.	Polling

101.	Direct Memory Access

102.	Application I/O Interface

103.	Kernel I/O Subsystem

104.	Transforming I/O Requests to Hardware Operations

105.	Streams

106.	Performance

107.	Protection

108.	Access Matrix

109.	Implementation of Access Matrix

110.	Access Control

111.	Language-Based Protection

112.	The Security Problem

113.	Malicious codes

114.	System and Network Threats

115.	Cryptography as a Security Tool

116.	Authentication

117.	Key Distribution

118.	User Authentication

119.	Firewalling to Protect Systems and Networks

120.	Distributed System Structures

121.	Types of Distributed Operating Systems

122.	Distributed Operating Systems

123.	Network Structure

124.	Network Topology

125.	Communication Protocols

126.	Robustness

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