On the other side of the utility spectrum are operating systems designed by smaller developer teams. Haiku OS and SerenityOS ...

A file system is a major component of the operating system (OS). Applications command the OS to input and output data, and the file system reads and writes the sectors on the storage drive.

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. A computer file system is a ...

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

If needed, Apple's TextEdit program can be used to modify hidden system files.

Windows includes Compact OS. Using compact.exe you can reduce the size of the operating system & run it from compressed files, similar to WIMBoot.

Instead, it simply verifies the integrity of all the operating system files and replaces any OS files that are missing, damaged, or of an incorrect version.

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.

Google's business-aimed plan for making Windows apps available on Chromebooks is officially now available — and for the first time, we're able to test it out firsthand.