The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course ...

The advent of affordable 64-bit computing could be the best thing to happen to Linux in a long time, opening up a new market potentially as important as the original PC market, according to Linux ...

Linaro, the open-source development consortium for Linux on ARM architecture, is working on software, tools and drivers that could hasten the release of 64-bit Android. The move is significant because ...

Officially, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors. But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name just a ...

Long-term Raspberry Pi watchers will have seen a lot of OS upgrades in their time, from the first Debian Squeeze previews through the Raspbian years to the current Raspberry Pi OS. Their latest OS ...

An operating system that is designed to work in a computer that processes 64 bits at a time. Most personal computers today are 64-bit, and mobile devices are expected to begin using 64-bit CPUs in the ...

Or is there no difference at all? I have some admittedly low end hardware, a pair of Netbooks that I have hooked into a large monitor. Both are Intel Atom chips. N270 'Diamondville' single core 1.60 ...

If you're reading this on a PC running Windows, it's almost certainly a 64-bit version of the operating system. It also supports 32-bit applications, which is why so many old games will run on it, but ...

Some users are unable to see 64-bit guest operating systems displayed on the Oracle VM VirtualBox application and because of this, they are not able to install such operating systems on VirtualBox. In ...