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 ...

When we talk about computers -- PCs, smartphones, cars -- we generally assume that there's just one operating system: A single, monolithic piece of software that manages each individual piece of ...

When it comes to the operating systems you can actually use on your computer, there are really only three main ones that are ever brought up. You have Windows 11, macOS, and Linux (or, more accurately ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Your computer has an operating system, or OS. You may be ...

Open-source software is giving rise to emerging breeds of quasi-commercial, prosthetic, and industrial robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) software — a suite of software libraries that help ...

Internally, Apple engineers rely on a dedicated app to view, manage, and toggle in-development features and user interface elements within pre-release versions of new operating systems. Here's what ...

Lineo, maker of the Linux-based embedded operating system Embedix, said this week that it had licensed patented technology from FSMLabs, the creator of RTLinux. Lineo is the first to publicly license ...

The desktop operating system is dead as a major profit center, and Apple just delivered the obituary. Amid a slew of incremental improvements to its iPad tablets and MacBook laptops, Apple today ...