What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. On a closed-source OS like Windows ...

Is it time for a new type of operating system? The founders of DBOS think so. Back in 1986, Michael Stonebraker started the open-source PostgreSQL database project, which to this day remains one ...

But operating systems have been traveling in the exact opposite direction, away from unity and simplicity. Today, most users’ documents are distributed over many computers (often three “main ...

The first flavor, cunningly called Type 1, installs a bare metal hypervisor on a phone and can run multiple operating systems. A bare metal hypervisor is basically a lean, mean cut-down OS with no ...