A system software component that is external to the operating system kernel. If the phrase is used to refer to the operating system itself, it is redundant because an operating system "is" software.

There are a few different reasons why the average person — as opposed to an enthusiast tinkerer — might want to try out one of the many available flavors of free Linux-based operating systems. If ...

An operating system that is designed for a server. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ...

There is no such thing as a cloud operating system — and we're some way off even needing one, says Lori MacVittie. Google's foray into the operating-system business was barely public before it was ...

Windows president Pavan Davuluri recently described the future of Windows as an agentic operating system, where AI bots and large language models handle the user's commands ...