Windows and macOS may be more common in the general populace, but the operating system rabbit hole goes pretty deep. You’ve got the Linux ecosystem, which houses everything from useful general-purpose ...

I'm no stranger to weird operating systems. I've run Tails from a USB stick (an OS that blew the lid off the NSA) and installed a 50 MB operating system to revive a decade-old PC. And I thought I'd ...

With money for budgets scarce and new funding for IT projects scaled back, many of you will be tempted to embrace lower-cost alternatives to existing products and standards. In particular, you might ...

One of the oft-repeated reasons for using alternative operating systems is the suggestion that alternatives to Windows are more secure because malware is not produced for these minority systems—in ...

Looks like Ballmer wasn’t just blustering. “Windows 8,” or whatever it ends up being called, has a radically new interface–a sleek, touch-centric look that draws more on Windows Phone 7 and general ...

since having gotten my blackjack a few months ago, i have discovered a sense of freedom and flexibility i've not known could come from a phone. back in the olden days i was using a dell axim x5 (great ...

After playing with a NextStep VM, Haiku, and a few other "alternative" Operating Systems, I've decided to pick up a used G5 to play with OS9. I came into the Mac world with the Public Beta; Before ...

(Reuters) - You may have heard of the operating system Tizen (you may even know how to pronounce it: tie-zen, not tee-zen or tiz-zen). But the chances of it running your smartphone are slim, about the ...