Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

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

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. But it definitely happens because, in the final analysis, people ...

I'm not gonna lie: I don't give FreeBDS (or any of the BSDs) the attention they deserve. The reason for that is simple: I'm a Linux guy. But isn't FreeBSD Linux? It looks like Linux, it smells like ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the ...

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep ...

Linux command line gives its users great flexibility and options to play with when they need to reboot their systems. The command line method is handy when you need to reboot a Linux server. We ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

Windows continues to be the most widely used operating system in the world, powering over a billion devices from personal laptops and desktops to workstations and enterprise machines. It is the ...

Devices can be character devices (like keyboards and serial ports), block devices (such as hard disks and USB devices), network devices and virtual devices. On Linux systems, devices are represented ...