Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that will almost ...

The smorgasbord of laptop silicon at CES this year ran the gamut from ostentatious hybrid gaming rigs to sleek ultraportables with smartphone-inspired notches in their displays, to useful, inexpensive ...

Using Ubuntu Linux to import and edit photos from a digital camera. By J. D. Biersdorfer Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology ...

Details have emerged about a new side-channel attack that targets an operating system's page cache, where sensitive data that has been accessed for use, like program binaries, libraries, and files and ...

With cybersecurity threats on the rise and data breaches occurring almost every week, it’s natural to ask: What is the most secure operating system (OS)? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t ...

To launch Presto you simply either power up your system or reboot it, and once the system finishes going though POST, the Windows Boot Manager will appear. By default, Windows is selected as the ...

The 13.3-inch Ativ Q can run Android, while the Ativ Tab 3 brings the Galaxy design to a Windows 8 tablet. A number of popular apps have made their way to Windows 8 this week ahead of Build 2013, ...

Is MINIX dead? OSnews is sounding its death-knell, citing evidence from the operating system’s git log that its last updates happened as long ago as 2018. Given that the last news story on the MINIX ...

Among the hoopla surrounding the 30th anniversary of the Mac last week, Macworld‘s Jason Snell had an excellent interview with Apple’s Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, and Bud Tribble about both the ...

The Mac Observer just benchmarked Parallels Desktop 8 against its main Mac Desktop virtualization competitor, VMware Fusion 5. Both applications were configured to virtualize Windows on a 2011 27-inch ...