Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Most Windows programs don't run on Linux, and those that do usually have special versions that are compiled specifically for ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

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

ISO/IEC 5230 is an international standard that defines management methods to ensure reliability and transparency in the use of open source software (OSS). This international standard was established ...

The book exposes the modern surveillance apparatus (cameras, smartphones, AI tracking) and traces its roots to Cold War-era ...

Out of all the operating systems in existence, Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is the most frowned upon, and there are a few reasons for the same. While overall adaptability, software support, and ...

Tor has announced Oniux, a new command-line tool for routing any Linux application securely through the Tor network for anonymized network connections. Unlike classic methods like torsocks, which rely ...