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Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet On the face of it, Windows 7 actually looks fairly similar to Vista - and uses the same Windows kernel, which should help minimise compatibility issues with software and devices. Ah, Windows 7. I remember that - didn't... [20 Oct 2009]
Mission-Critical Java
White Paper Customers can now reap the benefits of a standard Java-based infrastructure, including higher developer productivity, fewer defects, a rock-solid proven kernel, and adherence to standards. Technology barriers have... [15 Oct 2009]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1984 to develop a Unix-like software kernel that was available for free - something which is still being worked on. GNU currently runs on the Linux kernel in the form... [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Finnish software architect Torvalds initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel which formed the basis of operating systems driving desktop and server technology, as well as being embedded in a significant... [29 Sep 2009]
Supporting Systems That Have More Than 64 Processors: Guidelines for Developers
White Paper In the Windows 7 operating system, the 64-bit kernel supports more than 64 logical processors. To scale up to support this expanded number of processors, some applications and Windows kernel-mode... [16 Sep 2009]
Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing With Satellite Kernels
White Paper Access to I/O services such as file systems are made transparent via remote message passing, which extends a standard microkernel message-passing abstraction to a satellite kernel infrastructure. Helios is an operating... [16 Sep 2009]
Power Availability Requests
White Paper This paper describes when to use availability requests, the user-mode and kernel-mode functions that support such requests, and new options in the PowerCfg tool to manage availability requests on Windows 7 or Windows... [16 Sep 2009]
The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser
White Paper Gazelle's Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals. Web browsers originated as applications that people used to view static web sites... [16 Sep 2009]
Kernel Parameters for HP-UX Systems Running Oracle e-Business Suite Software Applications
White Paper This paper contains recommendations for kernel parameters on HP-UX servers running Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) software applications. This paper is intended to give an overview of base kernel... [02 Sep 2009]
Tunable Base Page Size
White Paper The larger base page sizes allow memory to be managed more efficiently, resulting in a decrease in kernel memory usage. Tunable Base Page Size is a new feature introduced in update 3 to HP-UX 11i v3. The system... [30 Aug 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News He offered up a wishlist for Snow Leopard that included: "real" ASLR; "full use of hardware-enforced Non-eXecutable memory (NX)"; default 64-bit native execution for security-sensitive processes; sandbox policies for Safari, Mail.app,... [27 Aug 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News Lumension analyst Paul Henry said there has been some fear that the patches would go further, addressing some kernel level issues. Microsoft on Tuesday released nine patches, five of them critical, to plug holes in... [12 Aug 2009]
Apple Mac OS X security holes get plugged with latest update
News It also fixes a problem with how XML content is handled and resolves the way the kernel handles AppleTalk response packets. Apple on Wednesday issued a security update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities including several that... [06 Aug 2009]
Red Hat Enterprise MRG - Realtime Whitepaper
White Paper Red Hat is uniquely positioned to provide these capabilities due to its proven trackrecord of development and mainstream accepted Linux kernel realtime enhancements. In response to strong customer demand, Red Hat is... [05 Aug 2009]
Ensuring Safety and Reliability in a Real-Time Virtualized Environment: Virtualization Technologies Help Industrial Equipment OEMs Comply With Safety Standards
White Paper For the shop floor, the Green Hills IEC 61508 certified kernel can be used to develop highly reliable real-time controllers that meet stringent safety standards. Green Hills Software has developed a range of solutions,... [05 Aug 2009]
