Unix, one of the earliest computer-operating systems, was developed between the late nineteen-sixties and the early nineteen-eighties, by A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories and various universities around ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

Most consumers can, with a little effort, name two desktop and laptop operating systems: Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS. Few have ever considered any of the open-source alternatives found under ...

The GNU GPLv2 Sec. 2 (c) requires people who modify the interactive program released under that license to cause it to print or display legal notices, but they can change where and how it displays ...

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems, anyway ...

After putting this question to the experts, the conclusion is that no matter what you call it, it's still Linux at its core. Should the Linux operating system be called "Linux" or "GNU/Linux"? These ...