Qubes OS defines itself modestly as "a reasonably secure operating system." It might actually be one of the safest operating systems, often used by pros who are most concerned with computer security.

While Chrome OS is far from ready for the regular user, lots of us are aching to play around a little with Google's young operating system. This virtual machine-friendly build looks like a good ...

See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the native OS.

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a host computer.

A new open-source operating system will come with the option of creating one-time, disposable virtual machines on the fly as a way to protect against malicious files. Invisible Things Lab is ...