In this its 40 th year of operating system life, some Unix stalwarts are trying to resurrect its past. That is they are taking on the unenviable and difficult job of restoring to its former glory old ...

The Lisp Unix-Like Kernel project explores the potential of using Lisp for systems programming, traditionally dominated by languages like C. By harnessing Lisp's powerful macro system, dynamic typing, ...

"Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel," says this announcement of GNU Linux-Libre 6.15 kernel, posted by Freedo (pseudonym; mascot) on Monday in linux-libre. A day earlier we published: Pushers of ...

Welcome to the 1st Edition UNIX repository. Here, you will find the kernel source code and userland binaries necessary to run 1st Edition UNIX on a PDP-11 simulator. This repository houses a ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

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FOSDEM 2024 There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they're being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort. FOSDEM is a conference all about free ...