After years of Linux, I tried GhostBSD and found it incredibly stable - and nearly unbreakable ...

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 ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

Looking for non-Linux open-source options? From ghosts of past operating systems to fascinating works in progress, here are ...

We really like Mac OS X. Really. We now use it as our default OS and, overall, would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and would ...

Your old Windows machine is ready for its second act.

Thanks to the GNU General Public License, the complete source codes of the Linux kernel and Linux distributions are open-source and completely transparent. This means you can customize the user ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is introducing a long-awaited upgrade to its Unix operating system (OS) and launching new, affordable Integrity servers in a direct challenge to rival products from IBM Corp.

The Year of the Linux Desktop has become something of a sad meme in recent years, but the truth is that Linux as an alternative to Windows and macOS has never been more popular — both in terms of ...

Dual-boot, VMs, and WSL2 walk into a Windows ...