In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

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Android fragmentation is a constant issue for the world’s most popular operating system. While high-end consumers are treated to a fresh Android version each year, another version comes along before ...

For the last decade or so, I have heard much about the 'superior' BeOS. To this day, a successor lives on in 'Haiku'. Couldn't most of the feel of BeOS be achieved with the proper Desktop Environment, ...

Build notes leaked on the web of a prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard indicate that the software only supports enabling its new 64-bit kernel on certain machines, including the Xserve, ...

Over the past year, Google has been working on a wholly new operating system named Fuchsia. Back in May, we got our first look at the current UI for Fuchsia OS, while we also know a bit about the ...

Yesterday, we asked for advice, short of erasing a disk, for solving a data corruption problem that occurred after a kernel panic was triggered by launching iTunes. We received numerous suggestions: ...

I was serendipitously in San Jose when my column on Apple’s closed-source OS X x86 kernel posted on-line. Apple had set up a day of meetings for me to discuss MacBook (nice!), Final Cut Express HD ...