However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born Gnu Hurd ...

Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported ...

It's a practical reality that enterprises have systems with older operating system versions running in their networks. A recent analysis by exposure management company runZero found that 8.56% of ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

There’s a new(ish) smartphone operating system aimed at folks who want to be able to run Android apps, but want additional security and privacy features. It’s called GrapheneOS, and it comes from ...

Q: Microsoft no longer supports Windows 8. I have an old Lenovo that cannot be upgraded to even Windows 10. What are the real-life risks of running older programs and making online purchases on ...

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 ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...