Abstractions are the keystone of the dynamic ecosystem of information and communication technology. You can think of them as allowing you to drive a car without understanding how the engine or ...

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 ...

Google has surprised the tech world with an announcement that it will launch its own operating system, aimed initially at the cheap, portable computers known as netbooks. It's the first-time Google ...

The software, and its most widely known distributor Red Hat, has open source coding alowing anyone with the skill to modify it at will. Northern California business software behemoth Oracle announced ...

We all know that today's computers use an operating system to operate. Let's talk a bit on what exactly is an OS and what it does. You can think of the OS as the middle person in a business ...

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 ...