What makes a good OS?
An operating system is nothing but a software which manages hardware resources and provides a common interface between other software applications. For an application to run on a computing device, an OS has to be preinstalled on it in order to act as a bridge between the hardware and software.
Although the first operating system known as the OS/360 was introduced in 1966 by IBM, there have been a number of advancements since then in terms of management, speed of processing and capacity of an OS. Some of the modern day Operating Systems include, Windows, Android, Linux, Unix and Apple’s iOS. A few of these were developed by software development companies whereas the others were developed over a long period of time by software experts as an open source development platform.
With the latest devices and gadgets coming up in the computing industry, operating systems have to be modified to meet their needs and requirements without making them slow or bulky in operation. The main features which make a good operating system are:
- Good Memory Management: One of the most important responsibilities of an OS, memory management deals with allocating the right amount of memory to different applications keeping a buffer for the prospect of a new task. This makes the user experience worthy.
- Proper Job Scheduling : This activity decides when a process should be allocated the resources it has asked for. The types of scheduling include Round Robin scheduling, shortest job first and priority scheduling.
- Optimum file Management System: It is the method or system an OS deploys to manage files on a computer. A good OS will store the names of all the files with their accurate addresses, control access rights on files, and provide simple yet fast read and write algorithms with the device manager.
- Efficient Thread Management: Every Process or application is comprised of one or more threads, where each thread depicts a path of execution. The better the Virtual memory of the device the better will be the thread processing capacity.
Different OSs have varied properties. Some have better scheduling with poor thread management whereas other have great file management but poor virtual memory making the OS heavy and slow at times.
At the end, it all depends on the main component of an OS known as the kernel, as operating systems tasks are performed in different manner by different kernels.
While monolithic kernels uses the same address same for computational purposes to increase the performance parameter of operating system, microkernels uses user space for executing most of the operating system services. Also, kernel should ideally be as small as possible while providing all the required services required by other parts of an Operating System and applications.
Author’s bio:
Christa Joe is the author of this article. She has been writing articles on warehousing management for companies like Q3 Technologies. Moreover, she has been providing useful content writing material related to custom software development.
By: christa joe
Tips for effective blogging
Often blogs are run by individual with regular updates in the form of commentary, news about events, sports, books, tips & tutorials, technical stuff and many more. Entries made to a blog are mostly displayed in a reverse chronological order. The content that is added to a blog is called blog post or entry and person that makes entries to a blog is the blogger.
Blogs are regarded as the fastest growing form of mass communication on the internet today. Following are the effective ways that should be implemented to create a good blog:
1. First of all, you need to carry out a research to find a good topic by looking at the other successful blogs. This will help you find out what your interests are and what you really want to write about.
2. Search and find out the blog sites that are related to keywords and topics that you have chosen and check out the features that attracted you to those web blogs.
3. Select a domain name for your blog which is relevant to the theme or the content of the blog.
4. Decide on a design for your blog keeping in mind that it should be fresh, easy to navigate internally and appealing to your target audience. Minimalist design is becoming more and more popular. It is advisable to design the blog according to your theme. Say you have a software technology blog, then you can have a computing or software oriented design.
5. Do a good research on relevant keywords for your blog, write some good post related those keywords and use those keywords in the content of the blog too.
6. While adding a post, remember to preview it to make sure no errors have been made and then confirm. Also remember to add relevant keywords to the post so that your blog is able to appear on major SERPs.
7. Share your posts on various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in order to make users read them.
8. Make a webmaster account on Google and Bing and track various user activities like traffic, page views, bounce rate, visit duration, etc. on webmaster tools like Google Analytics.
After the creation of the blog, it’s most important that you write new article and publish them regularly on the website, especially if you are using that blog as a marketing tool. Blogging has become a vital part of business marketing for many software development companies and is also vital in bringing traffic to your site. Once there is a regular flow of visitors on your blog you can interact with them through commenting. Try to encourage users to post comments on your blog by your informative content and try to connect them and engage them in ongoing conversations, this make the site interesting.
If these tips are followed your blog will soon be very popular and lots of users will be engaging on it.
Kevin James is the author of this article. He has been demonstrating his writing skills by writing the articles for Outsourced software development services like Q3 technologies from last two years. He also has a keen interest in writing stuff for Software Development Company related firms.
By: Kevin James