operating system
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The computing infrastructure that drives the internet, for example, mostly uses the open-source Linux operating system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Leo Feng, founder of Chinese agent operating system Cola.APP, said price cuts are "an inevitable trend" that "may lead to a boom in downstream applications".
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Steve Jobs declared “thermonuclear war” on Google’s Android operating system in 2010, calling it a “stolen product.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
People familiar with the device described it as slimmer than an iPhone and running on a proprietary operating system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
