An even more locked-down version of the foundation most users never see.

There's some interesting (although quite misguided) discussion of Apple's decision to keep closed the source code for the Intel version of xnu, the kernel that underlies Dawin and Mac OS X. Infoworld ...

Spend enough time around Android, or even PCs, and eventually, you will come across the term, “the Linux kernel.” Android uses the Linux kernel too. In fact, it’s an integral part of the way your ...

Held under the theme of "Connect NEXT," DREAME AURORA made its Silicon Valley debut on April 29th. The event unveiled three ...

Google’s browser-centric Chrome OS hasn’t reached the market yet, but development is progressing and the platform is attracting the interest of a growing number of hardware makers. Although the ...

Microsoft hearts Linux and all, but the company is reaching a new level. In a slew of security news this week, Microsoft unveiled an operating system product -- not an internal system, but an ...

A newly uncovered Linux kernel flaw shows how a low-complexity exploit can bypass traditional defenses and escalate privileges across shared environments, reinforcing the need for faster patch cycles ...

At the 2019 Huawei Developers Conference held this afternoon, Huawei’s Yu Chengdong announced the launch of Harmony OS. This is a full-scale distributed OS based on a microkernel. Well, we have ...

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 achieved with the proper Desktop Environment, ...

The past few days we've been covering reports of kernel panics on PowerBooks and iBooks when switching Network Locations. Yesterday we summarized the main factors that appeared to be involved in this ...