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 ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Embedded operating systems are designed to be hidden from users. So if you haven't heard of QNX Software Systems's QNX Neutrino, you're not alone. But QNX could become almost a household name, if ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

The new SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3, the first upgrade of the software in almost 18 months, also supports Intel's Xeon Processor E5 line, otherwise known as "Haswell," and the AMD Opteron ...

Amidst news of job cuts, support for Moblin 2.1 and its enterprise collaboration platform called Pulse, Novell’s new Mono Tools add-in module for Microsoft Visual Studio seems to have slipped ...

In today's open source roundup: Is OS X a better choice than Linux? Plus: Mozilla blocks Flash in Firefox. And how to disable Flash in Chrome, Safari and Firefox OS X and Linux users share a similar ...

For now, like most other Debian-based projects, there's no 32-bit version of Peppermint OS, but the announcement says that the team is evaluating its options in that direction. Pi OS shows it's ...

Servers running the Apache web software are among the systems most vulnerable to Shellshock, the Bash Bug which has been around for 25 years. Reuters A serious bug has been found affecting Linux and ...

If you regularly use networks that change your OS X, Linux, or Unix system's host name, you may notice the Terminal command prompt reflect this. Here is how to prevent this from happening. Topher ...