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 ...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system — code-named Longhorn — into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system ...

Over the decades, Apple has managed several successful processor and operating system migrations with a combination of emulation and virtualization. Emulation lets a computer run code intended for a ...

One day before Sun Microsystems Inc. was set to end its Solaris operating system source code download program the company said it will keep the effort going, citing user interest as the reason for the ...