The push toward disaggregation and customization in hardware is starting to be mirrored on the software side, where operating systems are becoming smaller and more targeted, supplemented with ...

It seems these days, just about every embedded system has some type of operating system. And there are more options today as to which OS to choose. Is open source your best choice? What about a free ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

According to a report by ZDNET's Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is planning its next wave of operating systems for spring 2015, codenamed Threshold. Threshold is intended to update all three Microsoft ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...