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 ...

The Linux developers has made a lot of progress in dealing with the Meltdown and Spectre. That's good, but there's a lot of work left to be done. First, a brief refresher. Meltdown is a CPU ...

SchedCP comprises two primary subsystems: a control-plane framework and an agent loop that interacts with it. The framework ...

Global Developer Conference has wrapped up successfully, marking a pivotal milestone in the open-source AIoT ecosystem.

What do an open-source Windows clone, a 50MB Linux distro, and an operating system built entirely in Rust have in common?

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

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 ...

A system software component that is external to the operating system kernel. If the phrase is used to refer to the operating system itself, it is redundant because an operating system "is" software.

If you don't know what the Linux desktop operating system is, or if you're new to it, Jack Wallen's quick explainer will get you up to speed. Linux. What is it? At one point in time it was a niche ...