Definition of os

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Operating System: set of programs managing hardware resources and providing common services for application software. Without OS, even running an application would be mostly impossible. Among non-proprietary OS, famous examples are derived from UNIX, such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system