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For Fun and Profit: A New Book on the History of Linux and Open...
Twenty-six years ago this month, a geeky student in Finland released the Linux kernel to the world. Today, hundreds of millions of people are...
Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum, Creator of MINIX
I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the...
Review of Minix 3.1.2a IDE build2
Rich Morgan writes "Minix is an operating system designed for "resource limited" or embedded computer systems. Versions 1 and 2 were teaching operating systems...
Andy Tanenbaum releases Minix 3
Guillaume Pierre writes "Andy Tanenbaum announced the availability of the next version of the
Minix operating
system. "MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system
designed to...
Minix Networking Service Documentation
Christos Karayiannis writes "Christos Karayiannis and Andrew Swartzbaugh have completed the documentation of the networking service at the Minix OS at http://www.os-forum.com/minix/net. This is...
Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It’s Taking Over the World
ON AUGUST 25, 1991, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced a new project. “I’m doing a (free) operating system,” he wrote on...
Dell’s Linux PC Sequel Still “Just Works”—But it Adds 4K Screen and Rough Edges
Almost two years ago, we closed out our review of Dell’s first Linux-powered Developer Edition laptop with some words of wisdom from my former...
#HowIFoundLinux – Tweet-Length Journeys to Linux
I love hearing stories about how people found their way into this crazy, wonderful world of Linux.Go to any Linux conference (especially the lunches...
HPC Research Projects Find Muscle in Linux Lab Partner
Linux and FOSS are key players in science and research, and together they power the biggest research projects in the world. Here are four...
The Compiler That Changed the World Turns 25
Last year, Linux celebrated its 20th anniversary. The kernel that Linus Torvalds started as a hobby project helped the Internet bloom, challenged proprietary operating...