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. Use one of the hosts lnxsrv06, lnxsrv07, lnxsrv09, and lnxsrv10.

POSIX

• The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition (IEEE Std 1003.1-2017) specifies POSIX in considerable detail.
• The Austin Common Standards Revision Group develops POSIX.

GNU/Linux

• 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.
• crouton: Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment