Operating Systems (OER)

These are open educational resources (OER) for Operating Systems classes. They are to be used by teachers, trainers, students and hobbyists who want to learn about modern topics in operating systems.

Using the Content

The content is built using Jekyll and is hosted on GitHub Pages. It consists of 5 main sections:

• Software Stack
  • Lab 1 - Operating System Perspective
  • Lab 2 - Library Perspective
• Data
  • Lab 3 - Memory
  • Lab 4 - Investigate Memory
  • Lab 5 - Memory Security
• Compute
  • Lab 6 - Multiprocess and Multithread
  • Lab 7 - Copy-on-Write
  • Lab 8 - Synchronization
• Input/Output
  • Lab 9 - File Descriptors
  • Lab 10 - Inter-Process Communication
  • Lab 11 - IO Optimizations
• Application Interaction
  • Lab 12 - Application Interaction

Each chapter has a dedicated assignment in the assignments/ folder.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See the contribution guide on how you could report or fix issues and on how you can improve the content.

Reviewers are requested to follow the reviewing guide.