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

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 ...

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

Making the switch to Linux has never been easier, as Microsoft continues to bloat or break Windows 11 on a routine basis.

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

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

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 ...

The sudo is a special program that allows you to elevate the ability of a normal user to run administrative tasks, without giving away the root user's password in Linux and Unix operating systems. In ...

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 ...

The first time I ran any Linux operating system was when I took an introduction to programming courses. Ubuntu was installed on all the computers in the lab because it was lightweight and ...

In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student of computer science at the University of Helsinki, Finland, began his personal project — to create a new operating system kernel. This modest ...