Meanwhile, SerenityOS is a Unix-like operating system that features its unique in-house kernel rather than relying on ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

But there is one operating system that never fails to show off exactly what a desktop should be. That platform is Zorin OS. Zorin OS is as functional as it is beautiful.

Think of software like a big control room full of operators, each tasked with doing one thing when called upon. The simplest example of a piece of software is your PC's own operating system.

The software industry is pushing to extend the definition of the operating system that started with software built for mainframes in the 1950s and then into the PC revolution in the 1980s - it now ...

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For example, in 2014, security researchers revealed serious vulnerabilities in two crucial open source projects: OpenSSL and Bash, which are part of many major operating systems.

The maker of the Linux-based embedded operating system Embedix licenses FSMLabs' RTLinux technology, which critics say should never have received a patent.

Apple is developing an all-new operating system codenamed "Charismatic," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple smart ...

Free and open source software (FOSS) was a recurring theme during many of the talks during the HOPE XII conference, which should probably come as no surprise. Hackers aren’t big fans of being… ...

Apple's big iOS 8 rollout turned out to be a big problem for some users, who filed a class action lawsuit this week over the size of the operating system update.

Modern PCs, tablets and smartphones have an easy-to-use, graphical veneer that hides the complexity of the operating system software beneath that enables them work. While the developers of your ...