Slashdot reopened the endless Linus Torvald vs. Andy Tanenbaum debateabout microkernels and monolithic operating systems. This is asilly discussion akin to debating bicycles versus cars: both are ...

Developers are working to create experimental open-source operating systems with modular microkernels using the C# programming language. The SharpOS and Cosmos projects both announced their first ...

In the mid 1980’s I was working on a port of the MINIX operating system, which is a very light implementation of Unix that can run on very small unpowered hardware systems. Apparently this research is ...