One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it provided a single open operating system that everyone could use. With 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 ...

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

In version 19, the open-source SSH manager XPipe also connects to outdated Unix variants for the first time and supports pure SFTP. The open-source SSH manager XPipe has been released in version 19.

If you combine the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager, you get a desktop with a bit more panache than if you were to use Xfce alone. Compiz helps to turn Xfce into something akin ...

If ERP systems were judged the way consumer apps are, most would have been deleted years ago. And yet, organisations continue ...

The latest iOS update means more ways to enable Liquid Glass, new security features for AirDrop file sharing, and new ways to keep on top of your Reminders. It's becoming increasingly clear that ...

You've probably already chosen a side, but is it the right one? Here's how Apple and Google's mobile operating systems stack up on 14 key features. In 2014, I began my career at PCMag as a freelancer.