Name: Suneer Subhashchandra Dubal

(MIT151375)
Date: 23.03.2016

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PBL SHEET 1 WEEK 1
This Tutorial is worth 1 mark towards MN506 assessment.
Before leaving the lab students should show to their tutor
that they have completed all sections of the tute sheet.

1. What is an operating system?

Answer:
Every useful PC must have an operating system to run different
programs and applications. Operating systems perform
fundamental tasks, for example, perceiving input from the
keyboard, sending output to the PC monitor, monitoring
documents and indexes on the disk, and controlling devices such
as printers, CD-ROMs and disk drives. For large systems, the
operating system has much more powers and greater
responsibilities. It ensures that different users and applications
running in the meantime do not interfere with each other. The
operating system is additionally in charge of security,
guaranteeing that unapproved users don't access the system.
(Author: Suneer Dubal, retrieved by harikrishna)

2. Name 2 server operating systems and 2 client

operating systems.
Answer:
Server OS:
Windows Servers (Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2,
Server 2016 demo)
MAC OS X Server
Linux Server OS (RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu server 14.04,
etc...)
Client OS:
Windows OS (Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10)
Mac OS X ( Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks,
Yosemite, El Capitan)
Linux OS (Ubuntu Desktop 14.04, kali linux, Mint OS,
etc...)
(Author: Suneer Dubal, retrieved by harikrishna)
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3. Is server operating system different from client

operating system? If so what is the difference?
Answer:
Yes both server and client OS are different in so many ways.
A client OS is for the most part a single user OS where just 1
client can be effectively utilizing the PC at any one time. Video
and sound are vital to the "clients" to have a rich experience
while a server operating system is a multi-client operating
system where it is advanced for multiple user access at the same
time sharing the available all resources. Sound administrations
might be constrained and the video experience is not essential in
server OS. Further, a server OS provides mass network services,
while a client OS provides a workspace for users. A server OS
easily manages many client OS as it is higher version of client
OS. Moreover, a server OS is fully covered (ex: Active Directory,
DNS, DHCP, Failover clusters, etc...) and have higher security
than the client OS. In addition, a server OS provides centralised
administration for all users, all shared resources with higher
security but client OS only provides local (only 1 PC) machine
administration with lower security. Another difference is that
server OS runs backend services efficiently than the client OS. On
the other hand, a client OS efficiently runs front end softwares
and applications.
(Author: Suneer Dubal, retrieved by harikrishna)

4. Which Operating system do you like most?

(Author: harikrishna, retrieved by Suneer Dubal)
A. In present days most of the users uses the operating system
in their computer are mainly three that they are Apple Mac
OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
I would like to use Microsoft windows operating system most because it
is easy to operate and easy to understand, easy to upgrade,
5. Is it different than UNIX/Linux? If so write a comparison
between UNIX and that Operating system. If not write
few lines about the operating system of your choice.
(Author: harikrishna, retrieved by Suneer Dubal)
A. This both are the operating systems mainly used in pcs to run
the applications these are different operating systems.
UNIX: UNIX is an operating system used in internet services,
pcs and work station. It is a family of multitasking and
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multiuser operating system. The UNIX systems developed by

HP, SUN, IBM organizations. It is not a free source operating
system.
Linux: it is based on UNIX Linux is an operating system it is
open source operating system free to use, it is mainly used for
pcs hardware and software, applications and game
development, mainframes, etc..

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