With proprietary software, the code used to create the application (or operating system) is not available for public usage or viewing. Open source, on the other hand, makes the code used to create ...

After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

APIs are standardized methods that a Java program uses to ask the computer's operating system or another program to do something, such as opening a file or sending an email.

As crazy as that might sound, the open source way of building software is now embraced by the likes of IBM, which plans to pay $34 billion for open source company Red Hat, Microsoft, which paid $7 ...

Biologists now have the potential to act as software engineers and rewrite biological operating systems, starting from available genome sequences.