operating system family

An operating system family is a conceptual grouping of related operating systems that share a common architecture, design principles, and core components, often evolving from a shared codebase or lineage.

Observed surface forms (22)

• Fedora Linux edition ×3
• IBM mainframe operating system ×3
• Unix operating system ×3
• IBM operating system ×2
• Macintosh operating system ×2
• Microsoft Windows family ×2
• 16-bit operating system ×1
• BSD operating system ×1
• CP/M family operating system ×1
• Classic Mac OS version ×1

• GNU/Linux distribution ×1
• Linux distribution variant ×1
• Mac OS X release ×1
• Microsoft Windows NT family operating system ×1
• NetBSD port ×1
• classic Mac OS release ×1
• free and open-source operating system ×1
• operating system environment ×1
• operating system variant ×1
• real-time operating system ×1
• smartphone operating system ×1
• type system ×1

Instances (31)

• Android TV via concept surface "operating system variant"
• Common Type System via concept surface "type system"
• Windows 2000 via concept surface "Microsoft Windows NT family operating system"
• CP/M-86 via concept surface "CP/M family operating system"
• Debian via concept surface "free and open-source operating system"
• Windows for Workgroups via concept surface "Microsoft Windows family"
• Windows Phone via concept surface "smartphone operating system"
• Windows Embedded family
• System 1.0 via concept surface "Classic Mac OS version"
• System 1 via concept surface "Macintosh operating system"
• NetBSD/mac68k via concept surface "NetBSD port"
• OS/360 via concept surface "IBM mainframe operating system"
• TOS/360 via concept surface "IBM mainframe operating system"
• AIX via concept surface "Unix operating system"
• IBM i via concept surface "IBM operating system"
• Fedora Kinoite via concept surface "Fedora Linux edition"
• Fedora Sericea via concept surface "Fedora Linux edition"
• Mac OS 9 via concept surface "classic Mac OS release"
• z/OS via concept surface "IBM mainframe operating system"
• Trisquel via concept surface "GNU/Linux distribution"
• Windows NT
• Fedora Silverblue via concept surface "Fedora Linux edition"
• Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah via concept surface "Mac OS X release"
• OPENSTEP via concept surface "operating system environment"
• SINTRAN via concept surface "real-time operating system"
• Windows
• Windows 32-bit via concept surface "Microsoft Windows family"
• Solaris operating system via concept surface "Unix operating system"
  surface form: Solaris
• System 3 via concept surface "Macintosh operating system"
• HP-UX via concept surface "Unix operating system"
• FreeBSD via concept surface "BSD operating system"