In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

Developer Bryan Keller was curious whether an old version of Apple's Mac operating system was capable of running on the ...

For the last decade or so, I have heard much about the 'superior' BeOS. To this day, a successor lives on in 'Haiku'. Couldn't most of the feel of BeOS be achieved with the proper Desktop Environment, ...

There's some interesting (although quite misguided) discussion of Apple's decision to keep closed the source code for the Intel version of xnu, the kernel that underlies Dawin and Mac OS X. Infoworld ...

Google’s browser-centric Chrome OS hasn’t reached the market yet, but development is progressing and the platform is attracting the interest of a growing number of hardware makers. Although the ...

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Microsoft hearts Linux and all, but the company is reaching a new level. In a slew of security news this week, Microsoft unveiled an operating system product -- not an internal system, but an ...