High (80%) chance of rain in the early morning, clearing to a sunny afternoon. Winds northerly 15 to 20 km/h turning westerly 15 to 25 km/h before dawn.
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function.
up vote 2 down vote. A desktop operating system is an OS designed to run on a desktop computer. It has drivers, optimizations and interfaces (APIs and user interfaces) for desktop use. An embedded operating system is the same thing but intended for an embedded device. It might possible to load an application created on a desktop OS on an embedded OS, depending on the application, the OS, the hardware, the development tools used and possibly other factors.