Contiki is a tiny, open source operating system that few people know about. Plus: VLC adds Chromecast support to desktop and mobile apps, and a review of GoboLinux 015 by DistroWatch.

The Java Card Operating System (OS) is a part of CHOUPI Project. Java Card OS is a secure-oriented OS for small footprint embedded devices developed in Rust. This OS aims at running a Java Card ...

The demo application. For this tour, you’ll need a Java JDK and Maven installed. We’ll start by creating a fresh application with a Maven archetype, like what’s shown in Listing 1.

Some operating systems are designed by groups of people around the world, like the open source, freely available operating system Linux, while others are commercial products made by one company ...

Google even went so far as to ‘borrow’ the Java source code and build its own mobile operating system. The morality of doing so may be up for debate, but the Supreme Court of the United States said ...

BEA Systems has created a version of its Java application server designed for virtualization technology, using an approach that cuts the operating systems out of the picture. At the company's ...

Sun Microsystems' announcement that it will release the Java programming language under an open-source license raises a lot of questions. In this FAQ, Java expert Richard Hoffman tackles some of ...

On a desktop computer, you think of an operating system as a big piece of complex software. For small systems (like an Arduino) you might want something a lot simpler. Object Oriented State Machine… ...

In just about every computer science textbook, a computer consists of just three blocks: the hardware, the operating system, and then all the (user-land) software that runs on the OS. In actual ...

Gary Krakow tests Sun Microsystems' new operating system based on Java and Linux called the Java Desktop System. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.