This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts. But the ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in today’s fractured world too.

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX operating system in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming ...

Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, and other operating systems can trace their lineage back to the early commercial versions of ...

The free software community has always thwarted the toughest challenges facing freedom in technology. This winter season, we want to thank the many individuals and projects that have helped us get ...

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds announced a hobby project that evolved into Linux, one of the most important computing revolutions. But why are there so many Linux distros today? This video ...

Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...

Once the MIT Museum was a sanctuary of substance, a sanctuary of wire and grit, a tribute to the restless engineering minds that reshaped the modern world. It didn’t rely on digital glitz to impress.