Report on a current operating systems topic

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Assignment

Write a 1½-page report on a current operating systems topic. Your audience and topic for this report is TBD.

You’ll be analyzing recent issues in operating systems, and condensing them down to a summary. The idea is to do significantly better than a chatbot would.

Reading list

Read:

Reading list TBD.

What your report should do

Your report should cover the following topics. Obviously with the short page limit you cannot cover everything in detail. Focus on the most important things the administrator should know.

Topics TBD.

Submit

Submit on Bruin Learn a 1½-page report in PDF form. Your report should be named report.pdf ahd should follow the guidelines in Resources for written reports and oral presentations, in particular its guidelines for citing others, for USENIX templates for papers, and for how to write good papers. It is OK to go over 1½ pages if the excess material consists merely of figures, citations, and appendices.

If you prepared your report using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, your report should briefly cite the tools you used, and should contain an appendix containing a log in the usual form.