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 command-line terminal is still one of the most popular features of Linux, even though graphical interfaces have been common in desktop computers for decades. There are a few reasons for the ...

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The ...

I want to use text based linux, not X. Because I know this laptop won't be able to run it very well. Any suggestions as to what Unix-based operating system I should put on here? FreeBSD 4.3? RedHat?

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...