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 ...

Two mobile operating systems currently comprise nearly 100% of the global smartphone market. Building one is hard, and for most phone makers, there are better uses of resources, especially when ...

In my first job in tech at Medium, Craig Mod was one of my earliest—and most important—sounding boards. As an early reader of his just-published memoir, Things Become Other Things, I was happy to ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

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Aditya Akella leads the project that aims to boost performance of OSes and help enable assistant robots, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost ...

With all the cool things that a Raspberry Pi can do, from powering a takeout display to converting your garage door into a smart one, you're probably already looking to get started with this popular ...

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...