Operating Systems News and Articles

A little caution can save you hours of frustrating work (plus, options for mixing gone awry).

The tools and strategies you use to back up files that are not being accessed won't work when you copy data that is currently in use by a busy application. This article explains the danger of employing common Linux utilities to back up living data and examines some alternatives.

Matthew Dillon, founder of DragonFly BSD, discusses the past, present, and future of BSDs.

The open source RISC-V processor architecture is poised to shake up the processor industry. Thanks to the Qemu emulator, you can get to know the RISC-V without waiting for affordable hardware.

If you don't speak fluent Ethernet, it sometimes helps to get a graphical view of what your network is doing. Skydive offers visual insights that could reveal complex error patterns.

Linux and the BOINC distributed computing platform help researchers fight the COVID-19 virus.

Andrew David Wong discusses the Qubes OS project's security-by-compartmentalization approach, including an endorsement from Edward Snowden.