In a community update on the game's official Discord server, which was also reposted on Reddit, the devs shared some good ...

Such is the case with the latest release of BlueStar Linux: a distro that essentially takes KDE Plasma and twists it into a ...

What is a kernel: A closer look. All multi-tasking operating systems have a kernel of one form or another. Windows has a kernel, OS X has a kernel, iOS has a kernel, and of course Android has a ...

For the last decade or so, I have heard much about the 'superior' BeOS. To this day, a successor lives on in 'Haiku'. Couldn't most of the feel of BeOS be ...

A year after the faulty CrowdStrike update that downed millions of Windows machines, Microsoft CVP Dave Weston works with third-party vendors to improve deployment practices.

The company will change the iconic blue error screen for a simplified black one, and ensure third-party security software adheres to new rules designed to stop bad updates and drivers from taking down ...

AMD has issued an alert to users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack similar to the infamous Meltdown and ...

Another big area of Windows that uses kernel-level drivers is anti-cheating engines for games. Microsoft has been speaking ...

This kernel also runs on iOS devices as both macOS and iOS are built on the same foundation. ... The first version of macOS (originally named Mac OS X) came out in 2001.

The Linux kernel is GPL2 which allows you to freely use it for anything, but if you make improvements, you have to give them back to the greater community. I’m glad the BSDs exist, and have used ...

The author points out that the original Linux kernel wasn’t much bigger (about 8,500 lines). The OS allows for paging, multitasking, a file system, and exception handling.