An old book about an even older operating system.

Someone spent a couple of hours with the AI-generated vibe-coded operating system Vib-OS, and it's about as bad as you'd expect, probably worse.

It's not Linux, or even Unix.

If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch, runs on ARM64 and x86_64, and comes with a full GUI, ...

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Open-source or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating systems? In an era of safety-critical embedded systems, the debate among developers is shifting. Embedded systems are the invisible backbone of ...

When people talk about operating systems, the conversation almost always revolves around Windows, macOS, or Linux. Occasionally, someone might mention FreeBSD or Solaris. Yet beyond these mainstream ...

Storage room 3495 at his University of Utah computing lab had gotten so packed full of cardboard boxes, Aleks Maricq jokes it had become hard to even see the floor. It rivaled a game of Jenga — or ...

When we think of important historical discoveries, many of us probably imagine big archaeological finds, such as the LiDAR-assisted discovery of two mountain cities in eastern Uzbekistan in 2024. But ...

Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the ...