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No. Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS, OpenVMS, Z/os, IBM i are all examples of operating systems.

Operating system software is what you see when you turn on your computer and wait for the computer to go through its Initial Program Loading (IPL) process reading software from a designated device, and going through the process of setting things up so it can process user requests.

Application software would be a programs that are used to perform tasks and jobs requested by a user. Sometimes these do turn themselves on at startup automatically - like antivirus software.

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