55 pages including cover Knowledge Digest for IT Community Volume No. 40 | Issue No. 11 | February 2017 ` 50/- Operating ISSN 0970-647X ISSN Systems COVER STORY Computer Operating Systems: From every palm to the entire cosmos in the 21st Century Lifestyle 5 TECHNICAL TRENDS SECURITY CORNER Cyber Threat Analysis with Blockchain : A Disruptive Innovation 9 Memory Forensics 17 www.csi-india.org research FRONT ARTICLE Customized Linux Distributions for Top Ten Alternative Operating Bioinformatics Applications 14 Systems You Should Try Out 20 CSI CALENDAR 2016-17 Sanjay Mohapatra, Vice President, CSI & Chairman, Conf. Committee, Email: [email protected] Date Event Details & Contact Information MARCH INDIACOM 2017, Organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New 01-03, 2017 Delhi http://bvicam.ac.in/indiacom/ Contact : Prof. M. N. Hoda, [email protected], [email protected], Tel.: 011-25275055 0 3-04, 2017 I International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI -2017), venue : Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam (Mandal), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, http://anits.edu.in/ sci2017/, Contact: Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy. Mob.: 9000249712 04, 2017 Trends & Innovations for Next Generation ICT (TINICT) - International Summit-2017 Website digit organized by Hyderabad Chapter http://csihyderabad.org/Contact 040-24306345, 9490751639 Email id [email protected] ; [email protected] 24-25, 2017 First International Conference on “Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA - 2017)” at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Contact: [email protected]; (M) 94754 13463 / (O) 033 24205209 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA - 2017) at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Contact (M) 9475413463 / (O) 03324205209, Email id : [email protected]; www.cicba-2017.in APRIL 1st International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovations & Computing (SSIC-2017) at Manipal University Jaipur, 15-16, 2017 Jaipur, Rajasthan. http://www.ssic2017.com Contact : Mr. Ankit Mundra, Mob.: 9667604115, [email protected] MAY ICSE 2017 - International Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering, Organized by : JECRC, Jaipur, www.icsc2017.com 08-10, 2017 Contact : Prof. K. S. Raghuwanshi, [email protected], Mobile : 9166016670 JUNE Workshop on LAMP (Linux, Apache, My SQL, Perl/Python), Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Raghogarh, • Cover Story 05-30, 2017 Guna - MP, www.juet.ac.in Dr. Shishir Kumar ([email protected]) 9479772915 • Technical Trends OCTOBER International conference on Data Engineering and Applications-2017 (IDEA-17) at Bhopal (M.P.), • Research Front 28-29, 2017 http://www.ideaconference.in Contact : [email protected] • Articles DECEMBER Fourth International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2017), at Jaypee University of Information • Innovations in IT 21-23, 2017 Technology (JUIT), Solan, India, (http://www.juit.ac.in/iciip_2017/) Contact : Dr. P. K. Gupta ([email protected]) • Security Corner (O) +91-1792-239341 Prof. Vipin Tyagi ([email protected]) • Practitioner Workbench • Brain Teaser • Chapter Reports CSI Adhyayan A tri-monthly publication for students • Student branch reports Articles are invited for Oct-Dec. 2016 issue of CSI Adhyayan from student members authored as original text. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Besides, the other contents of the magazine shall be Cross word, Brain Teaser, Programming Tips, News Items related to IT etc. Please note that CSI Adhyayan is a magazine for student members at large and not a research journal for publishing full- fledged research papers. Therefore, we expect articles should be written for the Bachelor and Master level students of Computer Science and IT and other related areas. Include a brief biography of Four to Five lines, indicating CSI Membership no., and for each author a high resolution photograph. Please send your article to [email protected]. On behalf of CSI Publication Committee Prof. A. K. Nayak Chief Editor www.csi-india.org 2 CSI COMMUNicATIONS | FEBRUARY 2017 CSI COMMUNICATIONS Volume No. 40 • Issue No. 11 • FeBRuARY 2017 Contents Chief Editor Prof. A. K. NAYAK Cover Story Computer Operating Systems: 5 Editor From every palm to the entire cosmos in the 21st Century Lifestyle DR. DURGESH MISHRA Subrata Ganguli Associate Editor Technical Trends PROF. PRASHANT NAIR Blockchain : A Disruptive Innovation 9 KVN Rajesh & KVN Ramesh Published by Research Front MR. Sanjay Mohapatra Customized Linux Distributions for Bioinformatics Applications 14 For Computer Society of India Khalid Raza & Sahar Qazi Security Corner Design, Print and Cyber Threat Analysis with Memory Forensics 17 Dispatch by Hardik Gohel & Himanshu Upadhyay GP Offset PVT. LTD. Articles Top Ten Alternative Operating Systems You Should Try Out 20 Deepu Benson Operating Systems 22 Simran The battle for the Best Smartphone OS 24 S. N. Kakarwal Operating Systems : Mass transit for the future 26 R. Gobi RSOS: Reliable and Secure Operating System 27 Ashutosh Saxena Please note: CSI Communications is published by Computer PLUS Society of India, a non-profit organization. Views and opinions expressed in the CSI Call for Papers for April Issue of the CSI Journal of Computing 21 Communications are those of individual authors, contributors and advertisers and they CSI Nihilent eGovernance Awards 2015-16 – A Report 30 may differ from policies and official statements of CSI. These should not be construed as legal CSI 2016 – A Report 31 or professional advice. The CSI, the publisher, the editors and the contributors are not CSI-IEEE Computer Society Joint Education Award 2016 – A Report 33 responsible for any decisions taken by readers on the basis of these views and opinions. CSI Meeting with Myanmar Delegates 34 Although every care is being taken to ensure genuineness of the writings in this publication, Citation of Life Time Achievement, Honorary Fellowship & Fellowship Award 35 CSI Communications does not attest to the originality of the respective authors’ content. Brain Teaser 46 © 2012 CSI. All rights reserved. CSI Reports 48 Instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for non-commercial classroom use Student Branches News 50 without fee. For any other copying, reprint or republication, permission must be obtained in writing from the Society. Copying for other Printed and Published by Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra on Behalf of Computer Society of India, Printed at G.P. Offset Pvt. Ltd. than personal use or internal reference, or of Unit-81, Plot-14, Marol Co-Op. Industrial Estate, off Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400059 and Published from articles or columns not owned by the Society th without explicit permission of the Society or Computer Society of India, Samruddhi Venture Park, Unit-3, 4 Floor, Marol Industrial Area, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 093. the copyright owner is strictly prohibited. Tel. : 022-2926 1700 • Fax : 022-2830 2133 • Email : [email protected] Chief Editor: Prof. A. K. Nayak 3 CSI COMMUNicATIONS | FEBRUARY 2017 Editorial Dear Fellow CSI Members, “One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.” – Mark Zuckerberg The theme for the Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications (The Knowledge Digest for IT Community) February, 2017 issue is Operating Systems, a technology that each one of use either in our computer, smart phone or intelligent device. In this issue, Cover Story article is “Computer Operating Systems (OS): From every palm to the entire cosmos in the 21st century lifestyle” by Subrata Ganguli. The author has provided an overview as also shed light on the global market share of various popular OS. The Research front is titled, “Customized Linux Distributions for Bioinformatics Applications” by Khalid Raza & Sahar Qazi. Here, most popular customized Linux tailored for bioinformatics and computational biology applications have been highlighted. KVN Rajesh and KVN Ramesh have contributed to Technical Trends through the article, “Blockchain: A Disruptive Innovation”, which focuses on how Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin is of great relevance in the context of demonetization. The Security Corner has Hardik Gohel and Himanshu Upadhyay giving us new insights on on Cyber Threat Analysis with Memory Forensics. We have several articles which provide us information on various OS available in the market; “Top Ten Alternative Operating Systems You Should Try Out” by Deepu Benson; OS by Simran Saini and Understanding OS by Mahek Golchha. Ashutosh Saxena in his article highlights, “RSOS: Reliable and Secure Operating System”. Also S. N. Kakarwal has give insights on the battle for the best smartphone OS. R. Gobi in the article, “Operating Systems: Mass transit for the future” provides a futuristic view of the technology. This issue also contains Crossword, CSI activity reports from chapters, student branches and Calendar of events. This issue covers the historic CSI 2016 Convention at Coimbatore on 23, 24 and 25 January, 2017 with special focus on other activities held in conjunction like the e-governance awards, MoU signed and CSI-IEEE award. The inspirtational citations of the honorary fellowship, fellowship and lifetime achievement awardees of CSI 2016 are also reproduced here • Cover Story We are thankful to Chair-Publication