Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

I’m trying to determine the technical details of why software produced using programming languages for certain operating systems only work with them. It is my understanding that binaries are specific ...

Consumer focused SoCs have evolved into platform architectures that are now being driven by requirements from operating systems such as Android, iPhone. Linux, and Windows and the thousands of ...

There's a nasty little war afoot over the future of the operating system. In one corner you have the operating system vendors. They're building in virtualization, for example. This increases the depth ...

A kernel can be defined as the essential center of an operating system. The kernel is the core of an operating system that provides a set of basic services for the other parts of the operating system.

To some, an operating system is a burden or waste of resources, like those working on embedded systems and other low-power applications. To others it’s necessary, abstracting away hardware so that ...

Real-time operating system kernels in embedded systems need to be configurable. Unfortunately many of today's commercial real-time kernels are monolithic. These optimized code packages are difficult ...

More embedded developers are being asked to design systems that run on more than one hardware platform and sometimes under more than one operating system. The force behind that trend is the decreasing ...