In many cases, errant USB devices can cause repeated kernel panics. A new batch of these conflicts appears to have cropped up under Mac OS X 10.4.4 -- typical with iterative Mac OS X releases.

In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it.

This article briefly examines and compares the kernels of the three most widely used quasi-Unix operating systems using three axes of comparison: efficiency, evolvement, and user friendliness. The ...

Microsoft is still sprinkling the operating system with Windows features, and recognizing that Linux has a more efficient kernel for the limited devices of IoT. "This is a new operating system.

Haiku OS could have focused on providing a nice Desktop Environment for the average/power user, and maybe a special file system to support its features. Leave the complicated kernel stuff and high ...

One reason Fuchsia is different from Android or Chrome OS is that it’s not based on Linux. Rather, the OS uses a new kernel designed to scale from Internet-of-Things devices to phones to desktop ...

A newly discovered silicon-level flaw in Intel's chip designs is forcing operating system manufacturers to update kernels and other software components to rectify the issue, changes that will ...

Microsoft is removing its Linux kernel from the Windows OS image with Windows 10 20H1/2004 and instead will deliver it via Windows Update.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Monday released version 3.9 of the Linux kernel, and particularly intriguing among numerous new features and improvements is support for laptops running Google’s ...

Linus Torvalds created Linux, the operating system that dominates the online world. But a rift exists between Torvalds and security experts.