Rebuilding an operating system from zero is a wild bet.
It’s difficult to convey in an era when a UNIX-like operating system sits in your pocket, how there was once a time when the mere word was enough to convey an aura of immense computing power. If you ...
NetBSD is a real Unix that can run almost anywhere. Can it run as a desktop?
What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...
Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure ...
In response to "Sun readies open source desktop?" Keith Denton writes: I am not an open source zealot. Nor am I a Microsoft basher. I am just an observer. My company was the first large software ...