It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

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 ...

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

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it provided a single open operating system that everyone could use. With the ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer ...

Flathub figures show: More Linux users are installing applications in the distribution-independent Flatpak format.

The International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) will honor Gunjan Sharma at their annual awards gala in NYC at the ...

Embedded Linux systems are becoming increasingly common due to their superior accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and ...

Common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) include all types of subversive entry-points discovered in programs, along with a ...

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 ...

This month, I’ll share some of the free software I use to understand how TV signals make it from the transmitter to the ...

Game developers would have to get serious about supporting Linux If we were really going to have a Year of the Linux Desktop ...