However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born Gnu Hurd ...

Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

A team of Yale researchers has unveiled CertiKOS, the world’s first operating system that runs on multi-core processors and shields against cyber attacks, a milestone that the scientists say could ...

Tokyo, Japan. March 13, 2017-eSOL, a leading developer of real-time embedded software solutions, today announced that the eT-Kernel real-time operating system (RTOS) now supports the latest ARM®v8-M ...

Released in August, AGENTS.md has already been adopted by over 40,000 open-source projects and coding agents to act as the ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

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 ...

At Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco this morning, Redmond officially announced Windows Phone 8. The company confirmed what we’ve suspected for many months now: Windows Phone 8 will be ...

Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...

Both Windows and Linux are receiving significant security updates that can, in the worst case, cause performance to drop by half, to defend against a problem that as yet hasn't been fully disclosed.