One of the best-kept secrets of Mac OS X Lion is that you can now install a bootable copy of Lion directly to a flash drive, giving you a portable, fully functioning version of the operating system.

(Minix is a POSIX-compliant, UNIX-like operating system that saw its first release in 1987.) That project eventually gave birth to what would come to be known as the Linux kernel.

One password will activate a hidden Windows installation as your real operating system, and the other, a decoy install to throw intruders off the trail.

If, for example, you were interested in installing openSUSE Leap 42, you can do so by typing the command wsl.exe --install openSUSE-42 and then pressing Enter; or Kali Linux by typing wsl.exe ...

Research In Motion (RIM) is constantly developing and testing new software and applications for your BlackBerry. Keeping up to date with the newest operating system (OS) software for your smartphone ...

The new OS X El Capitan features a new Split View, features in Safari, Mail, Notes, Maps, and Photos, and more. To get your hands on all this new stuff, you have to install the operating system on ...

NOOBS is the built-in operating system installer for Raspberry Pi. But if you already know which operating system you want to use, there's a quicker way to get your Pi up and running.

It’s a system utility in Unix and Linux environments that separates one set of running processes from another—in this case two different operating systems. You can alternate between the two on ...