When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
Anyone can look at operating system source code, modify it and share it with the world.
Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
The Report criticises most of the 19 country code IDNs currently operating for failing to capture the public imagination.
It takes courage to eliminate code from an operating system to make it more stable and reliable, as Apple did with Snow Leopard.
It stands in contrast to the closed or proprietary systems of Microsoft and Apple who restrict access to the core or source code for their operating systems.
Start-ups operating in just one zip code should compete.
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In the spirit of Linux, Agenda is releasing nearly all of its code for both the operating system and applications under general public license.
Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.
"It is a bit ironic, but the fact that Apple currently has such a small market share versus Microsoft 's Windows means that there are far fewer hackers writing virus code for the Macintosh operating system, " says Pile, who notes the premium IT managers place on system reliability.
Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
The code, called IOS (internetwork operating system), is the crown jewel of Cisco's technology.
Addressing these issues now will put you in a position to smoothly handle the operating system upgrade whenever the Windows 2000 gold code becomes available.
Kodak, which is currently operating under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code, said it wil focus on brand licensing and seek licensees in those areas.
Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.
Anyone from the open-source community can tinker with one part of the code and produce a custom-configured operating system.
With an estimated 50 million or so lines of code in Windows, we can expect the operating system to contain 500, 000 to 1 million bugs.
The company has been operating under the protection of Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code.
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Kodak has been operating under the protection of Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code since January.
Ubuntu is the most popular operating system to be based on the Linux kernel - the code that lets software and hardware work together.
Google decided to make Android an open-source operating system, which meant that third parties could take the code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell competing Android-based products.
Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.
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The problem is that one sequencer operating around the clock takes at least three years to crank out the raw unordered genetic code of just one person.
We look forward to exploring new operating systems and hunt for bugs and glitches like little gophers in a giant green field of code.
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The problem: A single sequencer operating around the clock would take at least three years to crank out the raw unordered genetic code of just one person.
Since 2008 Apple has implemented a safeguard called "code-signing" to prevent hackers from running any of their own commands on its mobile operating system.
Global regulators operating under directives from the G20 are looking for something like the Internet ICANN registration model based on public code with free access.
Apple's operating system was an embarrassment: slow, buggy and unable to keep up with Microsoft's far fresher code.
Ubuntu is based on the Linux operating system and its development and use is governed by an open ethic that emphasises the sharing of core computer code.
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