Throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, Terry iterated on his OS project once called J Operating System, eventually coined ...

Slax calls itself "your pocket operating system," and that tagline still holds true. At around 275MB, it’s light enough to carry on a USB stick but polished enough to serve as a day-to-day rescue or ...

How many times have you been asked what operating system version you use, and you haven’t got a clue? The question is often asked when you’re seeking technical support for software or hardware issues, ...

Charles Kalko is a big fan of trusted operating systems. With PitBull from Argus Systems Group Inc., he’s used them to lock down vital functions that run his business-to-business barter site. The ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Aditya Akella leads the project that aims to boost performance of OSes and help enable assistant robots, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost ...

Q: My 10-year-old Samsung laptop had a catastrophic crash. I took it to a local repair shop and the tech/owner said the entire drive and data could not be recovered. He also said the operating system ...

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