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The kernel plays an essential role, as it manages how your phone, tablet, and PC's hardware and operating system.

Trusted operating systems seal up systems vulnerabilities like never before. But the complexity of the systems can lead even experienced administrators to create more problems than they solve. For ...

Oracle has been subsuming operating system functions like memory and storage management for years; subsuming the whole operating system was just the next logical step.

The course covers nine areas, with the first six being core operating system functions and the remaining three covering more advanced operating system concepts.

From the beginning, PowerToys was designed for “power users” who were seeking ways to tweak how the operating system functions.

Members of the open-source community can now contribute code to Fuchsia, an experimental operating system that Google LLC has been developing over the past four years. Fuchsia first appeared with ...