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, ...

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 ...

In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

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 ...

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Combo UpdaterAs has become common practice with recent incremental Mac OS X updates, applying the 10.2.5 combo updater can resolve a number of otherwise unexplainable problems that crop up after ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Every single operating system developed by Google to date has one ...

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 ...

Build notes leaked on the web of a prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard indicate that the software only supports enabling its new 64-bit kernel on certain machines, including the Xserve, ...

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 ...