Or is there no difference at all? I have some admittedly low end hardware, a pair of Netbooks that I have hooked into a large monitor. Both are Intel Atom chips. N270 'Diamondville' single core 1.60 ...

Operating systems (OS) are the intermediary between computer hardware and software, an essential piece of any digital device. Much like an orchestra conductor, they ensure harmonious communication ...

The Raspberry Pi hardware has included a 64-bit processor since the Pi 3 launched in early 2016, but the Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian) has remained primarily 32-bit. The Raspberry Pi ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has announced that its Raspberry Pi OS, which is designed for its mini DIY computers, is now available in 64-bit. Until now, the operating system was only available ...

A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.… On Friday, RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL), the organization maintaining the FOSS version of the ...

Raspberry Pi has been using 64-bit processors for its tiny, low-cost computers since the organization launched the Raspberry Pi 3 in early 2016. But up until now the official Raspberry Pi OS has been ...

Long-term Raspberry Pi watchers will have seen a lot of OS upgrades in their time, from the first Debian Squeeze previews through the Raspbian years to the current Raspberry Pi OS. Their latest OS ...

Arm has announced that from 2023, all of its new smartphone CPU cores will be 64-bit only, with no 32-bit compatibility mode. We have had 64-bit capable smartphone processors since 2013 when Apple ...

In response to a recent Hassle-Free PC that described quickly determining which version of Windows you have, a reader asked the following question about his system: “Microsoft Windows XP, Media Center ...

The launch of a new family of Windows server products this week will kick-start a broad shift among customers to 64-bit versions of Microsoft’s server software, analysts and customers said. Microsoft ...