Operating systems resources for UCLA Computer Science 111

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SEASnet and other local resources

• The Linux Users Group at UCLA (LUG@UCLA) is happy to help you with installing on your laptop or home machine.
• You can also do some of your labs on the SEASnet Computing Facility's Linux servers for CS classes.

POSIX

• IEEE Std 1003.1-2013 specifies POSIX in considerable detail.
• The Austin Common Standards Revision Group develops POSIX.

GNU/Linux

• Using QEMU to compile and run labs
• The Linux Documentation Project
• Debian – The Universal Operating System

Etc.

• Operating system from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is unreliable; what problems do you detect in the lead paragraphs?
• ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
• Reimer J. Half an operating system: the triumph and tragedy of OS/2 Ars Technica 2013-11-25.
• Linder B. Crouton for Chromebooks: Run Ubuntu in a browser tab Liliputing 2014-12-28.