Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

This digital fossil took me back in time when computers played Tic-Tac-Toe on paper.

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Before Linux, GNU was working on its own Mach-based Unix compatible OS. Now, in the footsteps of Debian 13, there is a new release.… Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU ...

Props to this guy for writing a full OS software stack from scratch. That's something you just don't see anymore. However, given that it is written in C++, and is intended to be a daily-driver system, ...

We really like Mac OS X. Really. We now use it as our default OS and, overall, would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and would ...

Researchers found the only known surviving copy of Unix Version 4 on magnetic tape, a key milestone in the evolution of modern operating systems.

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

I just acquired a couple of SMP-based boards (A Dual Socket 5 board with a pair of P100's, and a SuperMicro P6DNF with a pair of 256k PPro 200's), and I'm pondering what OS I should install on each of ...

When the world got its first glimpse of Mac OS X six months ago with the release of the Mac OS X beta, cheers erupted across the Internet . . . but not from who you might have expected. While the ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...