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 ...

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 ...

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

Of all the Linux commands, rm is notorious. It's easy to completely wipe out your system with one mislaid rm command as root.

Canonical replaced the old data collection tool Ubuntu Report with a modern telemetry system called Ubuntu Insights starting ...

While Windows is cool, some folks want to try out Linux to experience the best of both worlds. In the end, they end up dual-booting their PC, where they can have both Windows and Linux OSes existing ...

efsw is a C++ cross-platform file system watcher and notifier. efsw monitors the file system asynchronously for changes to files and directories by watching a list of specified paths, and raises ...

Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities. By Adam Goldman Glenn Thrush and Mattathias ...

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building houses the offices of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Federal Judicial Center, the United States Sentencing Commission, and ...