The Raspberry Pi is a great device to experiment on and since it's easy to swap out operating systems on a whim, it's fun to run old ones that you don't have a lot of use for. To that end, here are a ...

Are you someone like me whose entire life revolves around their desktop PCs? Do you work, study, game, and watch movies all from a single computer? If yes, having separate OSes for each of your ...

Microsoft announced this week that it will bring the heart of the open source operating system Linux into Windows. Not to be outdone, Google says all future Chromebooks will be able to run Linux ...

And, Linus Torvalds shaped it and called it Linux, and it was good. Now the operating system was formless and hard to use, so Owen Le Blanc of the Manchester Computing Centre (MCC) said, "Let there be ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Even comparatively non-technical users know that computers ...

Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the timing and amount of the Smart City Challenge grant. The brains behind any great device or process generally rest on a great operating system.

Ford on Monday announced it has entered a six-year deal with Google to introduce the tech giant's Android operating system to future Ford and Lincoln vehicles. Ford will also rely on Google for cloud ...