Still, developing an operating system is a major endeavor, said Burton Group analyst Guy Creese, who once worked as an OS product manager.

The open-source collaboration website SourceForge on Thursday removed a Linux OS project allegedly affiliated with the online activist group Anonymous, after security experts said it could be harmful.

A relatively obscure desktop Linux project hints at a containerized OS future that makes perfect sense for enterprise computing.

The under-development OS was (and maybe still is) overseen by senior vice president of technical strategy Eric Rudder. At its heart, it is believed that Midori is a distributed, concurrent OS.

The Chromium OS Vanilla Build by Hexxeh is a no-frills approach to trying out the concept of a browser-based Linux operating system without buying a branded Google Chromebook. It boots from a USB ...

Mozilla has announced a new experimental project called Boot to Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing an operating system that emphasizes standards-based Web technologies.