The Symbian Foundation keeps kicking off developer-focused initiatives. One of the more recent is the Symbian Bug Squad, an attempt to convince developers to help test and fix bugs in the Symbian ...

I reload the operating systems on my laptops quite frequently. On the Linux side, it is because I am trying various distributions, while on the Windows side it is more often because something gets ...

Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub. Earlier this month, we spotted the ...

Ken Thompson (seated) and Dennis Ritchie created Unix in 1969. It's still the core of many operating systems.Courtesy of Nokia Bell Labs In August, Google set rumor mills spinning when it quietly ...

ORLANDO, Florida - Research In Motion on Tuesday offered a glimpse of the next operating system, BlackBerry 10, along with initial software tools to developers looking to create applications. This ...

Think you can make a better fast-booting, Chrome-focused OS than Google? Want to craft a custom Linux system that boots from a USB stick? SUSE Studio gives you 15 GB to do exactly that, and you do it ...

Facebook is reportedly working on its own operating system, in the hopes that sometime in the future it can pull back its reliance on Android. A new report from The Information says that the co-author ...

Microsoft Research has developed a non-Windows OS for academic types to play with. The subliminal message from Microsoft: Folks, we'd love to start from scratch with an OS, but we just can't go there.