Technical Terms
- Operating System (also known as OS)
- Software that controls a computer and acts as a layer between the hardware and the applications and users. (eg. Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Unix); Software that provides a simple environment for programmers and end users to work more efficiently (shell, command interpreter)
- Windows
- Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market
- Mac OS
- Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computers name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers.
- Linux
- a free Unix-like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds based on previous Minix work from Andrew Tannenbaum and released under the GNU General Public License; one of any number of systems which uses Linux as its kernel. For this usage, some prefer the term GNU/Linux
- Free software (also known as open source software or OSS)
- According to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, free software is software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies it must be available as source code. It does not imply that it is free of charge, so anyone can sell free software so long as they don’t impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use
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