Operating systems come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and just a few decades ago, it wasn't uncommon to run an operating system on a computer with a clock speed of a few hundred megahertz paired ...

One problem with building things using state-of-the-art techniques is that sometimes those that look like they will be “the next big thing” turn out to be dead ends. Next thing you know, that hot new ...

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...