You can find below the lecture slides and additional materials for each individual lecture.

The UNIX Internals by Uresh Vahalia (see to the right) is a good introductory book for all lectures. It covers the basic aspects of the traditional UNIX operating system.

UNIX virtual machines - Try this at home

It is strongly recommended for all students enrolled to the operating systems course to reproduce the demonstrations seen during the lectures using a UNIX/Linux virtual machine at home. Small optional home works will be available to further strengthen the basic skills using this operating system.

Many UNIX distributions can be downloaded from here as Vmware virtual machines. You can download and use the free Vmware Player to run these machines. During the lectures we use the CentOS (Redhat) Linux distribution

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Unix introduction

Unix introduction

Introduction to the UNIX operating system family

Attached files: 

UNIX Introduction Slides

Related Web pages: 

UNIX family tree

Gnome2 + Compiz demo

UNIX history

UNIX distributions

Linux kernel visualization in 3D

End of the UNIX time?

Submitted by Mészáros Tamás on 2014. June 4. 11:41 | Last updated: 2016. April 30. 08:50

UNIX process management

UNIX process management

Handling processes in the UNIX operating system.

Attached files: 

UNIX processes slides

Submitted by Mészáros Tamás on 2012. May 9. 08:23 | Last updated: 2016. April 30. 08:48

UNIX scheduling

UNIX scheduling

Detailed description of the classical UNIX scheduling. Features of the modern schedulers: Linux and Solaris.

Attached files: 

UNIX Process Scheduling Slides

Submitted by Mészáros Tamás on 2012. May 9. 08:29 | Last updated: 2016. April 30. 08:49

UNIX communication

UNIX communication

Basic forms of communication between UNIX processes: pipes, signals, System V IPC, socket communication and Sun RPC.

Attached files: 

UNIX communication slides

Submitted by Mészáros Tamás on 2012. May 9. 08:33 | Last updated: 2016. June 1. 10:48