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 ...

The other ways Linux handled startup before everything converged.

These powerful computers ruled technical tasks in the '80s and '90s. Can you still find one today?

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I ...

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now. Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the ...

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have ...

Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments was a major force in the ...