Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...

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 ...

Bucking standard conventions in software versioning, Linus Torvalds has designated the new release of the Linux operating system kernel, posted Friday, as version 3.0, even while maintaining that the ...

Mohammad Shuaib Siddique knows his way around the guts of modern computers. He’s a senior systems software architect who ...