Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

The preferred method for using OpenSC on Unix is to use the pre-packaged versions from operating system vendor or distribution (see Linux Distributions, for example). If the version is older than the ...

Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out – if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as can be. Neither of these OSes is a Linux distro – or even a form of Linux at ...

In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

UNIX is a powerful multi-user operating system (OS) that defined how we do computing for more than 40 years. It provided a lot of features and abstractions that we take for granted today. This ...

Unix time, also known as Epoch time, is a system that helps represent a point in time as a single number. Unix time was developed as part of the Unix operating system in the 1970s, and it has become a ...

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

Comment It's the end of an era. As The Reg covered last week, IBM has transferred development of AIX to India. Why should IBM pay for an expensive US-based team to maintain its own proprietary flavor ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. You have likely encountered them before: the banner ads on English Wikipedia that encourage you to donate.

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, ...

A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their friend’s US visit was going ...

Father’s Day is upon us and there’s no better gift for the person who has it all than the sum of human knowledge. Get your dad a download of Wikipedia! It blows my mind that a) all of Wikipedia’s 6.5 ...