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 system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

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

The collection of user data has become a contentious issue for people worldwide. Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right.

Sometimes, a somewhat obscure Linux distribution might be just what you're looking for. Is either CachyOS or Nobara the one?

Macs are powerful, but many users only scratch the surface of what their computers can do. MacPilot unlocks over 1,200 ...

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

The new 'amifuse' project aims to fix that with a new filesystem driver built around an invisible m68k CPU emulator. Amifuse is a FUSE driver for macOS and Linux, allowing you to natively mount disk ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...