Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced it is developing a new platform aimed at helping cybersecurity firms operate without accessing the kernel mode of its Windows operating system. Bloomberg reported ...

Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

Make a system call now, get the result later: a proposed kernel patch expands the possibilities for asynchronous I/O. The kernel’s support for asynchronous I/O is incomplete, and it always has been.

However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born Gnu Hurd ...