Article: COLUMN: Cold-hearted tech firms block progress, charity

Article: A competitor for the XO laptop
University Wire;  January 8, 2008 ;     680 words ......attempting to get its XO laptop in the hands of...concentrate on an XO laptop competitor, the...PC may give the XO laptop a run for its money...Child project. The XO laptop itself seems highly...proprietary Linux operating system from a one-gigabyte...of ...

Article: One Laptop Per Child Plans Next-Gen of XO Laptop
Wireless News;  May 24, 2008 ;     397 words ......Laptop Per Child Plans Next-Gen of XO Laptop WIRELESS NEWS-May 24, 2008-One Laptop Per Child Plans Next-Gen of XO Laptop (C)2008 10Meters - http://www.10meters...second- generation version of its XO laptop computer. Leveraging new advances...

Article: For an alternative to Windows, an unclear future. (Tech Talk).(operating system Lindows)(Brief Article)
Black Issues in Higher Education;  February 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ......century. Why? It's not often that a new operating system comes along offering a combination...the strikes against it. Linux is an operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds...college IT departments to adapt the operating system to the specific needs of faculty...

Article: Operating-system juggling and OS/2. (IBM's OS/2 operating system best equipped to handle emulations of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows)
Computer Shopper;  December 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Running one operating system on top of or within another operating system can be like running a circus. Some operating...disk. OS/2, the flying Karamazov Brothers of operating system juggling, manages to keep not only its own...

Article: Year of the operating system: a look at today's top contenders. (choosing a high-end operating system)
Computer Shopper;  June 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......are beginning to demand more from an operating system than simple support for individual...Right OS Unlike an application, an operating system is not chosen for the features it...the services, the functions that the operating system performs, which may or may not be...

Article: Palm revamps operating system, adds APIs.(Company Business and Marketing)
Network World;  July 2, 2001 ;     577 words ......the success of its current operating system and the demands that new...shift a radically rebuilt operating system from the current Motorola...to the Intel ARM 7. The operating system platform needs to support...

Article: Does which operating system you choose really matter?(Network Technology)
Security Distributing & Marketing;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......introduction of Windows Vista, the operating system (OS) world got a little more difficult...for that matter, does the choice of operating system really matter? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...cooperation between application and operating system allows, for example, multiple applications...

Article: `Operating System' Definition Debated at Trial
The Washington Post;  December 9, 1998 ;     609 words ......question: What is a personal computer operating system? The professor, David J. Farber of...University of Pennsylvania, argued that an operating system encompasses only a small set of files...maintaining that most PC users want a hefty operating system that handles a wide variety of ...

Article: Marshall U. plans to install new Mac OS X Leopard operating system
University Wire;  October 25, 2007 ;     483 words ......release the newest version of its OS X operating system Friday. Plans to install it on campus...Computing Services. The release of the operating system had been delayed twice before and...given UCS the opportunity to test the operating system as heavily as Microsoft's Windows...

Article: Clearly Coherent: an inexpensive Unix clone. (Mark Williams Co.'s Coherent version 4.0 operating system) (Software Review) (Tech Section) (Evaluation)
Computer Shopper;  March 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......if you could get a powerful operating system that didn't require 8Mb of...an honest-to-goodness 32-bit operating system. While Coherent looks and feels like Unix, it's actually an operating system in its own right--without one...

Article: IBM Bids to Use Apple's Macintosh Operating System.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 19, 1995 ;     700+ words ......negotiating the licensing of the Macintosh operating system to Big Blue. The announcement, made...PowerPC machines using Apple's Mac operating system as early as the second half of 1996...could do would be to get rid of (IBM's operating system) OS/2 for the PowerPC and promote...

Article: Apple Unveils Trial OS X; Initial Reviews of New Operating System Are Favorable
The Washington Post;  September 14, 2000 ;     574 words ......rolled out a trial version of its new operating system, OS X, which it says will be easier...prone to software crashes. The new operating system, unveiled at the Apple Expo in Paris...well as a revision of parts of the operating system that are invisible to the software...

Article: Picking the Right Operating System.(Buyers Guide)
Computer Shopper;  January 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ...There might not be one perfect operating system for a small business, but here's how...and now you're considering a new operating system that promises to be a panacea for...crashes--all this and more is just an operating-system installation away. Not so fast. As...

Article: Unisys opens Ctos operating system: Newsfront.
Software Magazine;  July 1, 1990 ;     161 words ...UNISYS OPENS CTOS OPERATING SYSTEM Unisys Corp., Blue Bell, Pa., is opening up its Ctos operating system that quietly holds third place among...Division. Unisys acquired the Ctos operating system with Convergent Technologies Inc...