Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

Cross-platform software is the norm today. In many cases, developers don't have to consider what operating system their apps will be deployed on, because apps tend to be more or less platform-agnostic ...

This is a graduate course in operating systems intended to create a foundation for operating systems research or advanced professional practice. Topics include thread and process management, virtual ...

This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...

Motorola will begin selling its first cell phone based on Linux this year and says most models will follow suit, a major sign of the growing popularity of operating system outside its stronghold on ...

The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

The tech giant will begin selling its first cell phone based on Linux this year and says most models will follow suit--a sign of the growing popularity of the operating system. Stephen Shankland ...

You might not know it, but inside your Intel system, you have an operating system running in addition to your main OS that is raising eyebrows and concerns. It's called MINNIX. Take a look at your ...