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Chapter Seven: Operating Systems

Questions:

1. How can the club members leverage the functionalities of their individual
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Operating Systems to share photos across different devices?

2. Which OS features can help organise the large number of photos efficiently?
3. How does using different image formats (JPEG vs RAW) affect the sharing
process?

4. Which security measures the operating systems offer can help ensure that
the photos are securely protected from unauthorised access?
5. How can the club leverage features within their chosen platform (online
gallery, social media) to present the photos in an engaging way?

Meaning of Operating Systems An OS is like an orchestra's, conductor,

An operating system (OS) is a type of arranging the various components
software that stands between a computer of the computer system so that they
system’s hardware and the several function as a unit. The OS manages
application software. An OS sits between all the resources of your computer,
a computer user and the computer’s including memory, storage space, and
hardware to make things work smoothly processing power. It allocates these
for a user as shown in Figure 7.1. resources to different programs running
simultaneously, enabling everything
Users to run smoothly. An OS further allows

User 1 User 2 ... User....n computer users to install and run various
software applications such as word
processors, games, and web browsers. A
Software computer operating system is basically a
System Software Application Software gatekeeper responsible for ensuring that

Operating System programs run properly and interact with
the hardware correctly.
Hardware
Central Processing Random Access Input/Output Operating systems have evolved
Unit (CPU) Memory (RAM) from simple software that was used to
support the operations of physically big
Figure 7.1: Interaction of OS with user, computers such as those with punch
software and hardware
cards and flashing lights, to the most

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