While Microsoft's Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck is doing sterling work at ...

Torvalds usually delivers new Linux kernel release candidates and full releases on Sunday afternoon, and documents each with ...

Development work on the Linux kernel — the core software that underpins the open source Linux operating system — has a new ...

Phone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security Apple has been working to harden the XNU kernel that powers its various operating systems, including iOS and macOS, with a feature called ...

When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known as the "kernel" resides in memory ...

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system derived from the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Unlike Linux, which is just a kernel with various distributions built on top of it, FreeBSD is a ...

An appendix covers how to write your own operating system for RISC-V in about 1,000 ... The author points out that the original Linux kernel wasn’t much bigger (about 8,500 lines).