On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

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

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

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 ...

First launched in 2018, the open-source SerenityOS offers its users a stripped-back GUI-based operating system that melds a 1990s desktop aesthetic with a focus on productivity for power users. It isn ...

Linus Torvalds was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He wanted to create an academic version of Unix OS for free. Linus began writing the code. Later his very own operating system ...

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 ...

WTF?! Nintendo positioned the Famicom to feel more like a computer than its Western counterpart – the NES – hence the name Family Computer. The additional storage and memory from the Disk System ...