HP’s GPIB standard receives Linux support 53 years after its original releaseLegacy lab instruments can now integrate seamlessly with modern Linux distrosThe interface maintains the original 8MB/s ...
If you're a big Linux kernel nerd, you might be shrugging your shoulders at version 6.8. After all, it's nowhere near the size of 6.7. In fact, Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) said in this Linux ...
Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...
In this its 40 th year of operating system life, some Unix stalwarts are trying to resurrect its past. That is they are taking on the unenviable and difficult job of restoring to its former glory old ...
Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...
Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...
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 ...
The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...
The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...