Members of the open-source community can now contribute code to Fuchsia, an experimental operating system that Google LLC has been developing over the past four years. Fuchsia first appeared with ...

With proprietary software, the code used to create the application (or operating system) is not available for public usage or viewing.

As well as a wealth of detailed information about how to write an operating system, Tanenbaum's book came with the source code for a small study system called Minix.

The Apple Lisa, released in 1983, was one of the first personal computers to come equipped with a graphical user interface, and soon the operating ...

The Code Underneath the Code A modern computer's EFI, like BIOS in older computers, is the embryonic code that tells a computer how to launch its own operating system.