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

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rust reimplementation of classic Unix tools is making progress: version 0.5.0 now passes 87.75 percent of the GNU test suite.

Google is in a very favorable position with its Android operating system, which comes installed on smartphones from numerous manufacturers and only has a few real non-Apple alternatives, like ...

The big picture: Google is reportedly developing a new Android-based operating system for traditional PCs. Codenamed "Aluminium," the OS is expected to replace ChromeOS, Google's cloud-focused laptop ...

A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS. A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS. is a news editor with over a ...

Despite Android's presence in nearly every corner of the tech industry, it has yet to truly establish a foothold on PC platforms. Google has had ChromeOS for years, but the ubiquity of Android — ...

Nothing has officially teased the arrival of its next major OS upgrade, Nothing OS 4.0. The new software is based on Android 16 and promises to bring major changes to Nothing phones. While the brand ...