SOFTICE Undergraduate Operating Systems Laboratories

摘要

The hands-on experience provided by an OS laboratory can significantly improve real operating systems' understanding. Despite their inherent complexity, such systems can clarify lectures by exposing the implementation constraints at the origin of the lectured concepts, algorithms and tradeoffs. Such a pedagogical approach helps students to "make sense" of facts instead of merely memorizing them thus resulting in a more active learning dynamics. As of today, the availability of the Linux kernel source code, its increasing presence in server-side industries and its many related publications and pedagogical material have made it a tool of choice in achieving such an endeavor. As always, there is still room for improvement.