operating system

Summary

operating system is a software category^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.76% of software_category entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,397 views/month, #2 of 263).^[2]

Key Facts

• operating system's instance of is recorded as software category^[3].
• operating system followed kernel^[4].
• operating system is a type of system software^[5].
• operating system is part of computing platform^[6].
• operating system's Commons category is recorded as Operating systems^[7].
• operating system comprises kernel^[8].
• operating system comprises file system^[9].
• operating system comprises memory manager^[10].
• operating system comprises scheduling^[11].
• operating system comprises access control^[12].
• operating system comprises window manager^[13].
• operating system's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Operating systems^[14].
• operating system's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Operating systems^[15].
• operating system's partially coincident with is recorded as hypervisor^[16].
• operating system's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox OS^[17].
• operating system's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox OS version^[18].
• operating system's topic has template is recorded as Template:Operating systems^[19].
• operating system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/operating-system^[20].
• operating system's main Wikidata property is recorded as P306^[21].
• operating system's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'OS'}^[22].
• operating system's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'OS'}^[23].
• operating system's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'ОС'}^[24].
• operating system's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'SO'}^[25].
• operating system's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'el', 'text': 'ΛΣ'}^[26].
• operating system's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'gl', 'text': 'SO'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for operating system include OS-tan^[28], a fictional group of characters^[29]; visionOS^[30], in United States^[31], founded in 2024^[32]; and Collapse OS^[33], a free it^[34].

Why It Matters

operating system ranks in the top 0.76% of software_category entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,397 views/month, #2 of 263).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[36]

Entities named for it include OS-tan^[28], a fictional group of characters^[29]; visionOS^[30], in United States^[31], founded in 2024^[32]; and Collapse OS^[33], a free it^[34].