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, ...
Kernel panics: USB and other As we continue to deal with a huge number of kernel panic reports following the release and subsequent wide adoption of Mac OS X 10.2.5, there are appears to be some ...
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 ...
At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS "kernel extensions" (KEXTs) and replace them with a new mechanism called "system extensions." The first step towards this ...
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 ...
A new Microsoft announcement suggests it has found a way to deliver kernel-level visibility and capabilities to apps running in user mode. Experts conclude a ban on kernel access for cybersecurity ...