Category "operating-system"

How to distinguish between different operating system distros in node.js?

In node you have access to process.os() and process.platform, which give you one of 5 values: 'darwin' 'freebsd' 'linux' 'sunos' 'win32' But how do you print

Process starvation test case on XINU

I am trying to produce a test case for demonstrating starvation by xinu's default scheduling policy.: if 2 processes are ready for execution, the one with highe

check if file exists (case-sensitive)

Is there a way to check whether a file exists in NodeJS, with case-sensitivity, even when the underlying file system isn't case sensitive? fs.exists() may or m

Is it possible to create an operating system using Python? [closed]

Is it possible to make a minimalistic operating system using Python? I really don't want to get into low-level code like assembly, so I want t

Diff. between Logical memory and Physical memory

While understanding the concept of Paging in Memory Management, I came through the terms "logical memory" and "physical memory". Can anyone please tell me the d

Port Cbor library to Beaglebone running Xinu

I have a beagle bone black running xinu and a development environment set up in a VM running on virtual box. Up till now I have been able to write Hello world s

Unable to compile XINU source code after adding a new function in assembly language

I have added a file function.S in sys folder in XINU. .text .globl zfunction zfunction: <x86 code> equivalent C code for this function is long