BlackBerry 10 OS User's Guide

The BlackBerry 10 OS User's Guide is intended as background material for people developing apps for the BlackBerry 10 OS.

This guide tells you how to:

Use the BlackBerry 10 OS runtime environment. Think of this guide as the companion how-to doc for the Utilities Reference . Assuming there's a system prompt waiting for input, this guide is intended to help you learn how to interact with that prompt.

Although there aren't many opportunities for a system prompt on a BlackBerry device, this guide may still provide useful information about the QNX Neutrino RTOS that the BlackBerry 10 OS is based on.

The following table may help you find information quickly:

To find out about:	Go to:
How BlackBerry 10 OS compares to other operating systems	Getting to Know the OS
The basics of using the keyboard, command line, and shell (command interpreter)	Using the Command Line
Files, directories, and permissions	Working with Files
How to edit files	Using Editors
Creating your own commands	Writing Shell Scripts
The filesystems that BlackBerry 10 OS supports	Working with Filesystems
Analyzing and improving your machine's performance	Fine-Tuning Your System
How many processes, files, etc. your system can support	Understanding System Limits
Samples of profiles, etc.	Examples

For information about programming in BlackBerry 10 OS, see Get Programming with the BlackBerry 10 OS and the BlackBerry 10 OS Programmer's Guide .