Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...

Rolling back the Linux kernel can save the day when a bad update breaks your system. It should be done carefully, with backups and verification. Use it to regain a stable state, then address the root ...

For the last decade or so, I have heard much about the 'superior' BeOS. To this day, a successor lives on in 'Haiku'. Couldn't most of the feel of BeOS be achieved with the proper Desktop Environment, ...

A Linux kernel developer explains the key overlaps between the hypervisor and the OS kernel. The KVM architecture uses Linux as both, which puts new capabilities at the hypervisor’s disposal. You’re ...

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 ...

Yesterday, we asked for advice, short of erasing a disk, for solving a data corruption problem that occurred after a kernel panic was triggered by launching iTunes. We received numerous suggestions: ...