An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...

If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ReactOS userland, plus a few other odds and ends to let you run Win32 apps.

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 ...

Your computer has an operating system, or OS. You may be using Microsoft Windows, Apple’s desktop Mac OS X, some variant distribution of Linux such as Ubuntu, Debian or OpenSUSE… or you may be mostly ...

Modern operating systems are all far more secure than their historic counterparts, but which operating system is the safest? That somewhat depends on how you use it — no operating system is “safe” if ...