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For years, Linux has been responsible for powering servers in the cloud, but given how the cloud has grown exponentially, and that Linux wasn't designed specifically for the cloud, it became clear ...

FydeOS revived an old Surface Go 2 and made it great for day-to-day use, so you may not want to throw out that old tablet of ...

There is no such thing as a cloud operating system — and we're some way off even needing one, says Lori MacVittie. Google's foray into the operating-system business was barely public before it was ...

Michael Stonebraker has developed several influential database management systems over the years, including Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB. Matei Zaharia is the creator of Apache Spark and co-founder ...

Real-time and embedded systems operate in constrained environments in which memory and processing power are limited. They must provide their services within strict time deadlines to their users and to ...

On Windows 11 (and 10), MSConfig (also known as System Configuration) is a built-in tool designed to help you troubleshoot ...

Years before Mac OS X 10.0 was first released in 2001, Apple launched Mac OS X Server, targeting its newly acquired Unix-based operating system technology at the education and workgroup server market.

Research and development work on operating systems, broadly defined, is going on in many quarters. Here are some projects: The Legion Project: Researchers at the University of Virginia are developing ...

Because the operating system controls the resources (e.g., memory, CPU) of the embedded system, it has the power to prevent unauthorized use of these resources. Conversely, if the operating system ...