The divide between "computer OS" and "smartphone OS" seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day. Eventually, we won't even make a distinction. Is that happening sooner than we thought? I ...

LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The startup Deta wants to bring back software ownership and personal privacy without losing all the things that ...

From setup, to software tips, to must-have peripherals, here’s how to use your Steam Deck as an excellent personal computer Nintendo The more time I spend with Valve’s Steam Deck, the more I’m ...

As far as we know — thanks to reporting from Android Authority — Aluminium OS is the internal codename for Google’s unified ...

Your most powerful PC may fail to run Qubes OS, while a humble ThinkPad sails through.

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 ...

OS imaging and deployment tools help system administrators standardize the configurations of endpoints and onboard new computers quickly. We list the best. You need to set up all of your endpoints so ...

Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987. On ...