Apple's Mac OS X helps BSD overtake Linux for development Inquirer By Lawrence Latif THE LURE of shiny toys has helped Apple's BSD-based Mac OS X operating system overtake Linux to become the operating system that is the second most used by developers, according to Evans Data. Analyst outfit Evans Data reports that in ... See all stories on this topic » |
Windows 7 Dominates, Chrome OS Irrelevant ConceivablyTech According to a report released today, Windows 7 is estimated to account for 42% of operating system share in 2011 while 94% of all new PCs are shipped with Microsoft's latest OS. “By the end of 2011, nearly 635 million new PCs worldwide are expected to ... See all stories on this topic » |
CCleaner 3.0: New beta supports Mac OS X Lion BetaNews Based on the popular Windows version, CCleaner for Mac offers various cleaning tools for parts of the operating system, and is a freeware release. Beta 3's headline feature is that it introduces support for Mac OS X Lion, but it also includes a number ... See all stories on this topic » |
How to create a Mac OS X Lion recovery drive GigaOm 9, 2011, 3:44pm PT 1 Comment While Mac OS X Lion automatically installs a recovery partition on your hard drive for reinstalling the operating system or restoring from a Time Machine backup, that's no help if your hard drive completely fails. ... See all stories on this topic » |
Ephemeralization or Heroku's Evolution to a Polyglot Cloud OS InfoQ.com To create a cloud operating system, that, like any other operating system, frees you from the actual details on how and where to run your processes (services) and how to handle their resources, scheduling, updates and availability. ... See all stories on this topic » |
No Big Deal: Black Hat Revelation Ignored By Chrome OS Community CRN By Edward J. Correia, CRN Developers of Google's Chrome and Chromium OS as recently as July 29 boasted of the iron-clad security that's "baked in" to the open-source browser and operating system that powers Chromebook laptops. ... See all stories on this topic » |