EMU FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Code: CmpE 241

Course Title: Operating Systems

Course Credit: (4,1) 4

Semester: 2004-2005 Fall

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atilla ELÇİ (Gr. 2, Gr. 3)

Office no: CmpE 208 (please check office hours)

Office Tel: 630 2843

E-mail: Atilla.Elci@EMU.edu.tr

Website: http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/

Coord. Assistant: Erhan BASRİ

Office no: CmpE 202 (please check office hours)

Office Tel: 630 1626

E-mail: erhan.basri@emu.edu.tr

Lab Assistant: Latif POLAT (Groups 2 & 3)

Office no: CmpE 123 (please check office hours)

Office Tel: 630 2839

E-mail: latif.polat@emu.edu.tr

Lab Assistant: Yüce TEKOL (Groups 2 & 3)

Office no: CmpE 124 (please check office hours)

Office Tel: 630 2838

E-mail: yuce.tekol@emu.edu.tr

Textbook: Andrew S. Tanenbaum:

Modern Operating Systems, Prentice Hall, 2001.

ISBN: 0-13-092641-8.

Click for the book site (See below for PowerPoint presentation files)

Click for The Author's Site (check resources for the book).

Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne:

Operating System Concepts with Java, 6th edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

ISBN: 0-471-48905-0.

Click for the book site. Note online chapters on FreeBSD and Windows.

H. M. Dietel, P. J. Dietel, and D. R. Choffnes:

Operating Systems, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education, 2004.

ISBN: 0-13-124696-8.

Click to download the PowerPoint slides.

OBJECTIVE

An operating system manages all peripheral devices, network interfaces, other program resources and users of such. In short, an OS is a complex program system. The study of operating systems has gained importance with the advancements made in computer organization and programming systems. This course is devoted to a structured survey of OS concepts and practices. Similarly, certain prominent OS will as well be introduced. Special emphasis will be assigned to Unix/Linux.

Participant of the course will be required to carry out lab explorations, practical work in terms of assignments and small projects.

COURSE OUTLINE

See the outline document common to all groups.

EXAMINATION AND GRADING

See the outline document common to all groups.

See Common Course Website for exam papers.

IMPORTANT NOTES

Office Hours: 14:40 – 15:30 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Also see the outline document common to all groups.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FILES

These are .zip files for which you'll need an extractor. Win XP has a built-in zip file extractor; for other PC OS's, you may use shareware WinAce Archiver, WinZip, Alattin Stuffit Expander.

Decompressed files are Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. If you do not have Microsoft Office installed, go to the Office Update File Converters and Viewers page to download a PowerPoint viewer for your operating system (Windows and Macintosh only).

All chapters in a single .zip file (20 MB)
Chapter 1: Intro (2.6 MB)
Chapter 2: Processes (6.5 MB)
Chapter 3: Deadlocks (1 MB)
Chapter 4: Memory Management (4 MB)
Chapter 5: Input / Output (4.5 MB)
Chapter 6: File Systems (2.8 MB)

LABS

Lab work and schedule are listed in the common course website under Labs tag.

Students are encouraged to review OS labs of other institutions as well. Samples follow:

Labs of Gary Nutt: OS.

REFERENCES AND USEFUL LINKS

e-Course: Operating Systems Course on Windows 2000, Lancaster University, UK
Inside Windows Operating System, ver. 1, Audio/Visual presentation (viewable through Microsoft Media Player), Microsoft, June 2003; 2 CDs.
You can borrow them from me.
Other books: Also e-books at ACM Professional Development Center.

LINUX OS REFERENCES

TechRepublic's Linux primer: This primer is an introduction to Linux that provides you with a foundation of knowledge about the operating system.
Coyote Linux: smallest footprint firewall and internet connection sharing. Check this "floppy OS".
PARDUS: Made in Turkey:
Uludağ National Operating System Initiative has announced the availability of Pardus Working CD. Pardus is a Linux distribution having Linux kernel, Internet tools, office tools, multimedia and graphics tools, and many applications; and it works off CD! Pardus is open source and GNU GPL distribution. For further detail. ... Dated: Feb. 05, 2005.
Earlier news on Uludağ Project: open source national operating system with rich Turkish support and development based on Linux kernel. Product will be available by end 2004 and openly distributed. It's reported that TÜBİTAK's Ulusal Elektronik ve Kriptoloji Araştırma Enstitüsü is working to prepare a distribution based on Uludağ for use by Turkish Armed Forces. (Site in Turkish).
Uludağ Project received the "Penguin of the Year 2004 Award". Read about it (in Turkish).
* Gelecek Linux and ancillary Linux software. In Turkish.
Linux Documents: books, papers, manuals on Linux (mostly Turkish).
Linux commands in one page: download the zipped pdf file.
Linux versions of some DOS/Windows commands
Help on installing Linux:

Turkish Linux groups' sites might have relevant info: www.linux.org.tr and www.lkd.org.tr.
Linux on Laptops: http://www.linux-laptop.net/
Professor Norman Matloff's Beginner's Guide to Installing Linux: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/linux.html
How to install Linux? http://www.linux.org/docs/beginner/install.html
Linux Online - FTP Resources: http://www.linux.org/dist/ftp.html
RedHat 9: an installation story (in Turkish): http://lkd.belgeler.org/howto/rh9-kurulum.html
And, of course, best yet, check the how-to guides included with the media for the Linux flavor you wish to install.

I wish you patience and perseverance on this thorny road.

WINDOWS OS REFERENCES

Download: Excel Worksheet: core of Windows Server 2003: default services (zip).
Download: Windows Server 2003 commands (zip).
Also see the entries under References and Useful Links above.
Windows management from .NET applications: WMI.