Mobile operating system share of operating systems. However, variations occur in popularity by regions, while desktop-minority also applies on some days in regions such as United States and United Kingdom. Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones and smartphones: These operating systems often run atop baseband or other real time operating systems that handle hardware aspects of the phone. Android (based on the modified Linux kernel) is a mobile operating system developed by Google Inc. Besides having the largest installed base worldwide on smartphones, it is also the most popular operating system for general purpose computers (a category that includes
Operating system daily work in Wirth's group. Other operating systems have failed to win significant market share, but have introduced innovations that have influenced mainstream operating systems, not least Bell Labs' Plan 9. The components of an operating system all exist in order to make the different parts of a computer work together. All user software needs to go through the operating system in order to use any of the hardware, whether it be as simple as a mouse or keyboard or as complex as an Internet component. With the aid of the firmware and device drivers, the kernel provides the most