Slashdot reopened the endless Linus Torvald vs. Andy Tanenbaum debateabout microkernels and monolithic operating systems. This is asilly discussion akin to debating bicycles versus cars: both are ...

Trains are no longer the steaming leviathans of yesteryear run by men in overalls with lantern signals. Today, they are gleaming, articulated subways and light-rail transit (LRT) systems moving tens ...

An operating system (OS) is an optional part of an embedded device’s system software stack, meaning that not all embedded systems have one. OSs can be used on any processor (Instruction Set ...

Researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less-than-critical severity with an OS design based on a verified microkernel. In an exhaustive study of critical Linux ...

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.