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    Let’s take another example:

                     You purchase a movie DVD. You can touch and hold the DVD.

                     But you cannot touch the movie stored in it. So the DVD is
                     the hardware and the movie in it, is the software.

                     Types of Software                                                                       DVD

                     There are mainly two types of software:

                     1.  System software

                     2.  Application software

                     System Software

                     System software controls and manages the overall activities of a computer system.

                     So, the system software is like a manager of a computer system.

                     The main job of the system software is to prepare the computer for you to work
                     and run application software. Operating system is an example of system software.

                     Linux is the most popular operating system available today.

                     System software is a very important part of a computer system. Without system

                     software, the computer is like a car without a driver.

                     The system software also controls the working of the computer and makes the
                     computer  hardware  understand  the  instructions given by the  user through  the

                     application software.

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