Microsoft is ready to test Windows changes to prevent another CrowdStrike incident.

An operating system's kernel manages resources, handles system calls, governs hardware access, and controls processes. The Linux kernel was started as a way to overcome the licensing limitations ...

The 6.16 version of the kernel has Rust for Linux improvements to fix race conditions. Kernel updates tend to release every two months, so ongoing Rust work is current, and the project is still very ...

The OS has five layers, with OS Layer 0 interacting with the hardware, OS Layer 1 running a security monitor, OS Layer 2 hosting the custom Linux kernel, OS Layer 3 covering on-chip connectivity ...

In a community update on the game's official Discord server, which was also reposted on Reddit, the devs shared some good ...

In a curious move, Google yesterday renamed the “Magenta” kernel to “Zircon.” One reason Fuchsia is different from Android or Chrome OS is that it’s not based on Linux.

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 ...

Since then, we've received even more reports of this issue from readers; in fact, whereas yesterday we noted that all reports appeared to point to PowerBooks and iBooks running Mac OS X 10.3.2 ...

Snow Leopard will deliver the first 64-bit kernel for Mac OS X. Earlier versions of the operating system, including today's Leopard, can run 64-bit software but do so using a 32-bit kernel.

In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it.

There’s a tool called BridgeHelper 3.0 available from TonyMacx86 which will let you patch the OS X 10.7.3 kernel to add support for Ivy Bridge processors.