The Be operating system file system, known simply as BFS, is the file system for the Haiku, BeOS, and SkyOS operating systems. When it was created in the late '90s as part of the ill-fated BeOS ...

Each OS X application is actually a package that includes the program's executable binary file along with other resources the program uses to run and interface with various OS X services.

There is a strong chance that Windows 8, when it arrives in 2012, will be the last conventional, installed-application, file system-driven consumer operating system. With the popularity of mobile ...

photoman/Getty Images Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system.

U nraid, the popular operating system for self-hosted servers and NAS boxes, just released Unraid OS 7.2 as a public beta. It ...

9.5 OS Standards Example: POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) As introduced in Chapter 2, standards may greatly impact the design of a system component—and OSs are no different. One of the key ...

Depending on the partition scheme, these are the file systems Mac OS 10.4 supports: Mac OS Extended or HFS+ is an improved version of Apple's Hierarchical File System from the mid-1980s.