Reasons for Creating This Blog

September 19, 2011, Monday,

0500 Hours,

Parbhani, India.

       I've been studying computers since almost twelve years now. Since the beginning I was familiar with the concept of OS.
But I gained the actual depth of the subject around 2003.

       I started to study operating systems deeply roughly around 2006-07. While I was studying operating systems, I referred a lot of books. I realized that all of these books regardless their style, and language, had a basic structure in common.

       While studying any complex body, (a huge government or a huge constitution like India's [both the government and Constitution of India are biggest in the world.]), the most common technique is to partition the original structure of the body according to their functionality/work and then study the each part individually. After studying each part individually, study it in such way to understand how these different sections/parts fit together and work in harmony to form the original structure.

       Every book on operating system since the time of the ancient Romans has the same traditional method. According to this method, the OS is partitioned in several parts according to their work. After giving a very brief introduction to some concepts, terms and the parts of the OS in first chapter, the book starts discussing the parts of OS like Process Management, Memory Management, Security Management and so on. Then these "parts" have chapters inside it, for example Process Management has chapters like Process Scheduling, Process Communication, Co-operating Processes, Process Synchronization and what not. This makes each part isolated. Sometimes the reader gets frustrated and shouts out something like, "what the heck am I studying OS or Processes?"

       And after studying such isolated and humongous parts, we have to study one more part by the name "Case Study", example of actual operating systems, where we finally can see how these parts work together buoyantly in harmony as a real operating system.

       It is clear, if some computer enthusiast, who is not a student of computer science and still he is interested/curious about operating systems and wants to study them, then it is really difficult for him to study using such books.

       And thats exactly why i came up with this blog,
To help the such curious computer enthusiast. This blog is an attempt to explain the insights and works of operating systems in such a manner, that any person with knowledge of english and experience of using a computer would be able to understand the operating system.

Regards,
Kiran

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