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The ___MASK67___ ( abbreviated as PS2 ) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment . It is the successor to the PlayStation , and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles . It was released on March 4 , 2000 in Japan , October 26 , 2000 in North America , November 24 , 2000 in Europe , and November 17 , 2000 in Australia . It competed with Sega ' s ___MASK22___ , Microsoft ' s Xbox , and Nintendo ' s GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles . A video game console is an electronic , digital or ___MASK18___ device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play . The ___MASK44___ is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19 , 2006 . As a seventh - generation console , the ___MASK44___ competed with Microsoft ' s ___MASK30___ and Sony ' s PlayStation 3 . Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others . , the ___MASK44___ leads its generation over PlayStation 3 and ___MASK30___ in worldwide sales , with more than 101 million units sold ; in December 2009 , the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States . A ___MASK48___ ( PC ) is a multi - purpose electronic computer whose size , capabilities , and price make it feasible for individual use . PCs are intended to be operated directly by a person using a graphical user interface such as Windows . The versatility of a ___MASK48___ is greatly enhanced by the use of peripheral devices such as a keyboard , monitor , printer , mouse , speakers , and an external hard drive . GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of ___MASK18___ software . GNU is composed wholly of free software , most of which is licensed under the GNU Project ' s own GPL . WiiWare is a service that allows ___MASK44___ users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the ___MASK44___ video game console made by Nintendo . These games and applications can only be purchased and downloaded from the ___MASK44___ Shop Channel under the WiiWare section . Once the user has downloaded the game or application , it will appear in their ___MASK44___ Menu or SD Card Menu as a new channel . WiiWare is a companion to the Virtual Console , which specializes in emulated games originally developed for other systems instead of original games . The ___MASK44___ Shop Channel is an online shop for the ___MASK44___ video game console that allows users to download Virtual Console games , WiiWare games , and additional channels . Downloading may require redeeming ___MASK44___ Points . The channel launched with ___MASK44___ on November 19 , 2006 . Available software is currently organized into three sections : Virtual Console , WiiWare , and ___MASK44___ Channels . The ___MASK30___ is a home video game console developed by Microsoft . As the successor to the original Xbox , it is the second console in the Xbox series . The ___MASK30___ competed with Sony ' s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . The ___MASK30___ was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12 , 2005 , with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ). Machinarium is a puzzle point - and - click adventure game developed by Amanita Design . It was released on 16 October 2009 for Microsoft Windows , OS X , Linux , on 8 September 2011 for iPad 2 on the App Store , on 21 November 2011 for BlackBerry PlayBook , on 10 May 2012 for Android , on 6 September 2012 on PlayStation 3 ' s PSN in Europe , on 9 October 2012 in North America and on 18 October 2012 in Asia , and was also released for PlayStation Vita on 26 March 2013 in North America , on 1 May 2013 in Europe and on 7 May 2013 in Asia . Demos for Windows , Mac and Linux were made available on 30 September 2009 . A future release for the Nintendo ___MASK44___ ' s WiiWare service was cancelled as of November 2011 due to WiiWare ' s 40MB limit . Microsoft Windows , OS X , Linux and Android versions of this game were released along with Humble Indie Bundle for Android 4 on 8 November 2012 , to customers who paid over the average price . The Windows Phone version was released on 22 March 2014 . An operating system ( OS ) is system software that manages ___MASK18___ hardware and software resources and provides common services for ___MASK18___ programs . All ___MASK18___ programs , excluding firmware , require an operating system to function . Open - ___MASK77___ software ( OSS ) is ___MASK18___ software with its ___MASK77___ code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study , change , and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose . Open - ___MASK77___ software may be developed in a collaborative public manner . According to scientists who studied it , open - ___MASK77___ software is a prominent example of open collaboration . The Linux kernel is a monolithic Unix - like ___MASK18___ operating system kernel . The Linux operating system is based on this kernel and deployed on both traditional ___MASK18___ systems such as personal computers and servers , usually in the form of Linux distributions , and on various embedded devices such as routers , wireless access points , PBXes , set - top boxes , FTA receivers , smart TVs , PVRs and NAS appliances . The Android operating system for tablet computers , smartphones and smartwatches is also based atop the Linux kernel . While the adoption on desktop computers is low , Linux - based operating systems dominate nearly every other segment of computing , from mobile devices to mainframes . , all but two of the world ' s 500 most powerful supercomputers run Linux . The other two run AIX on IBM power 7 hardware . The PlayStation 3 ( abbreviated as PS3 ) is a home video game console developed by Sony ___MASK18___ Entertainment . It is the successor to ___MASK67___ , and is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles . It competed with Microsoft ' s Xbox 360 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . It was first released on November 11 , 2006 , in Japan , November 17 , 2006 in North America , and March 27 , 2007 in Europe and Australia . Amanita Design is a Czech independent video game developing company founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský and headquartered in Brno , Czech Republic . The company has created award - winning games including " Machinarium ", the " Samorost " series and " Botanicula ", as well as educational and advertising minigames and animations , all using ___MASK71___ . Clients include BBC , Nike and The Polyphonic Spree . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists of several families of operating systems , each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows 10 Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile . , sometimes abbreviated as VC , is a specialized section of the ___MASK44___ Shop Channel and Nintendo eShop online services that allows players to purchase and download retro games ( mostly unaltered ) for Nintendo ' s ___MASK44___ and ___MASK75___ home gaming consoles and the Nintendo 3DS portable gaming console . Reggie Fils - Aime has stated that a Virtual Console service will also be featured on Nintendo Switch . IBM PC compatible computers are those similar to the original IBM PC , XT , and AT , able to run the same software and support the same expansion cards as those . Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones , or IBM clones . They duplicate almost exactly all the significant features of the PC architecture , facilitated by IBM ' s choice of commodity hardware components and various manufacturers ' ability to reverse engineer the BIOS firmware using a " clean room design " technique . Columbia Data Products built the first clone of the IBM ___MASK48___ by a clean room implementation of its BIOS . Linux ( pronounced or , less frequently ) is a Unix - like ___MASK18___ operating system assembled under the model of free and open - source software development and distribution . The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel , an operating system kernel first released on September 17 , 1991 by Linus Torvalds . The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU / Linux to describe the operating system , which has led to some controversy . Linus Benedict Torvalds ( born December 28 , 1969 ) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and , for a long time , principal developer , of the Linux kernel ; which became the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating system , Android and Chrome OS . He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the diving logging and planning software Subsurface . He was honored , along with Shinya Yamanaka , with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland " in recognition of his creation of a new open ___MASK77___ operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel ". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE ___MASK18___ Society ___MASK18___ Pioneer Award . Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells ___MASK18___ software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . Unix ( trademarked as UNIX ) is a family of multitasking , multiuser ___MASK18___ operating systems that derive from the original AT & T Unix , developed starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie , and others . The Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) is a 501 ( ___MASK66___ )( 3 ) non - profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement , which promotes the universal freedom to study , distribute , create , and modify computer software , with the organization ' s preference for software being distributed under copyleft (" share alike ") terms , such as with its own GNU General Public License . The FSF was incorporated in Massachusetts , USA , where it is also based . ___MASK18___ software , or simply software , is that part of a ___MASK18___ system that consists of encoded information or ___MASK18___ instructions , in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built . Adobe Animate ( formerly called ___MASK71___ and Shockwave Flash ) is a multimedia software platform for production of animations , browser games , rich Internet applications , desktop applications , mobile applications and mobile games . Flash displays text , vector graphics and raster graphics to provide animations , video games and applications . It allows streaming of audio and video , and can capture mouse , keyboard , microphone and camera input . Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows ___MASK18___ operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000 , which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS - DOS , both of which were updated in subsequent versions . This includes all versions of Windows 95 and Windows 98 . Windows ME is sometimes included . Free and open - ___MASK77___ software ( FOSS ) is ___MASK18___ software that can be classified as both free software and open - ___MASK77___ software . That is , anyone is freely licensed to use , copy , study , and change the software in any way , and the ___MASK77___ code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software . This is in contrast to ___MASK39___ , where the software is under restrictive copyright and the ___MASK77___ code is usually hidden from the users . The ( known internally as the System Menu ) is the graphical shell of the ___MASK44___ game console , as part of the ___MASK44___ system software . It has four pages , each with a 4 : 3 grid , and each displaying the current time and date . Available applications , known as " channels ", are displayed and can be navigated using the pointer capability of the ___MASK44___ Remote . The grid is customizable ; users can move channels ( except for the Disc Channel ) amongst the menu ' s 47 customizable slots by pressing and holding the A and B button while hovering over the channel the user wants to move . By pressing the plus and minus buttons on the ___MASK44___ Remote users can scroll across accessing empty slots .