Akira Urushibata recently wrote to libreplanet-discuss, which hadn't been active for 2 months ( he was the last person to write to it back in November ). His latest message is a bit like an article ...

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

In this its 40 th year of operating system life, some Unix stalwarts are trying to resurrect its past. That is they are taking on the unenviable and difficult job of restoring to its former glory old ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

Google has committed to a four-year support lifetime for its Linux kernel forks, starting with kernel 6.6. Android devices utilize the Linux kernel and need to be periodically updated to receive fixes ...

Microsoft has contributed thousands of lines of code to the Linux kernel, the open source software at the heart of the widely used Linux operating system. And now, the software giant has contributed ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

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