Windows is using a faster drive: In my configuration, I have Windows 11 on an NVMe drive, and since the tower I'm using has ...

An operating system's kernel manages resources, handles system calls, governs hardware access, and controls processes. The ...

Microsoft’s Get the Facts site, which I discussed in last week’s LinuxInsider column, “Getting the Facts About Windows and Linux,” makes the case that Windows is cheaper than Linux. The site includes ...

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...

Linux is a family of operating systems, all based on the Linux kernel. Each Linux OS is called a distribution, or a distro. There are a plethora of these. DistroWatch lists just the top 100 of a ...

There have been a lot of words written about the comments made by Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer during a Q&A session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) ...

Oracle has this month introduced the Oracle-flavoured Linux 7 open source operating system. Freely distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), Oracle Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise ...

It takes guts to request comments from a developer who self-admittedly bares his teeth and "hisse(s) at reporters, most of which suddenly remembered that they'd rather cover 'Home and Gardening' than ...

Signaling criminals’ growing interest in attacking non-Windows computers, researchers have discovered banking fraud malware that targets people using the open-source Linux operating system. Hand of ...