5overview on Cloud and networking
1.3 Network Operating Systems
Operating systems can be categorized as a server edition, desktop edition, and mobile
edition based on the tasks performed by them. e server edition can be used to man-
age networks and is capable of providing network services. Here, our focus is on server
edition operating systems. In the following, we will discuss several commonly avail-
able server edition operating systems that are capable of networking.
Most of the low-cost network server operating systems are developed to run on
the ×86 platform, which is powered with the microprocessors from Intel and AMD.
e ×86 platform was originally created for personal computers. Today’s ×86 platform
is built on multicore ×86 microp