An appendix covers how to write your own operating system for RISC-V in about 1,000 lines of code. Don’t speak Japanese? An English version is available free on the Web and on GitHub.

Members of the open-source community can now contribute code to Fuchsia, an experimental operating system that Google LLC has been developing over the past four years. Fuchsia first appeared with ...

Operating systems are the invisible engines behind every computer, smartphone, and smart device, yet many people take them ...

The Code Underneath the Code A modern computer's EFI, like BIOS in older computers, is the embryonic code that tells a computer how to launch its own operating system.