COS (operating system) the smart phone market when COS was introduced and Apple most of the remaining market share. COS looks very similar to Android and has its own Application Portal much like Android Market and iOS App Store. The Linux kernel is GPLv2 and the COS framework is closed source and licensed by the originators. The COS Core operating system is based on the Linux kernel and can be seen as a Linux distribution, in the same way as the Android operating system. According to the official statements, COS supports HTML5 based applications and Java based applications. COS (operating system) COS is
Network operating system Network operating system The term network operating system is used to refer to two rather different concepts: Network operating systems can be embedded in a router or hardware firewall that operates the functions in the network layer (layer 3)."" Early microcomputer operating systems such as CP/M, DOS and classic Mac OS were designed for one user on one computer. As local area network technology became available, two general approaches to handle sharing arose. In a peer-to-peer network operating system users are allowed to share resources and files located on their computers and access shared resources from others. This system is