If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like to use the many operating systems Apple (and NeXT) released over the past 40-plus ...

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum ...

If you thought Windows, macOS, and Linux were the only operating systems for general-purpose PCs, you might want to take a look at the sheer number of alternative OSes out there. The FreeBSD scene ...

Now, Google is moving to unify ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop platform, currently operating under the codename ...

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Looking for non-Linux open-source options? From ghosts of past operating systems to fascinating works in progress, here are my top picks.

Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the ...

In the annals of PC history, IBM’s OS/2 represents a road not taken. Developed in the waning days of IBM’s partnership with Microsoft—the same partnership that had given us a decade or so of MS-DOS ...

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 ...

One problem with building things using state-of-the-art techniques is that sometimes those that look like they will be “the next big thing” turn out to be dead ends. Next thing you know, that hot new ...