The Tails Project develops a privacy-focused version of Linux called Tails. It’s not based directly on the Linux kernel but rather a popular distribution of the operating system called Debian.

Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than ...

Drawbridge, a Microsoft Research project, expands on the "library OS" concept to streamline virtualization for application sandboxing.

An operating system for anonymity Originally developed as a research project by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Tor has been used by a wide range of people who care about online anonymity ...

James Larus, a 16-year Microsoft Research veteran, has left the company. "Midori" and other OS projects at Microsoft tracing roots back to his Singularity operating system, live on.

The software is designed for "modern phones and modern personal computers," which suggests Google intends to compete against Microsoft's Windows and possibly its own Android.

Raspbian Is the Best All-Around Operating System Raspbian is the “official” operating system of the Raspberry Pi and because of that, it’s the one most people will want to start with.

Meet Fuchsia, a new operating system in the works at Google Nobody quite knows what it's for (yet), but according to Android Police, Fuchsia can run on just about any kind of device.

An operating system that takes the best of iOS, but ditches some of its features—Troughton-Smith suggests replacing the XNU kernel and BSD unix underpinnings—with something new.

Samsung said it is working on merging its homegrown "bada" smartphone operating system with Tizen, an operating system project the company is conducting with chipmaker Intel.