Collaborate Disseminate
Is MINIX dead? OSnews is sounding its death-knell, citing evidence from the operating system’s git log that its last updates happened as long ago as 2018. Given that the last …read more Continue reading Is MINIX Dead? And Does It Matter?
Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was originally developed in 1969 as a lighter weight timesharing system for a DEC minicomputer at Bell Labs has exerted a huge influence over every place that we encounter computing, from our …read more
We look at three alternative operating systems. Because it’s Christmas, and because we can. You can too. Continue reading Holiday Fun #1: Try an unusual operating system…
What is the world’s most widely-used operating system on new PCs? Windows? Guess again. Continue reading Worries over Intel’s Mangement Engine grow after new flaws found
What is the world’s most widely-used operating system on new PCs? Windows? Guess again. Continue reading Worries over Intel’s Mangement Engine grow after new flaws found
Are you reading this on a machine running a GNU/Linux distribution? A Windows machine? Or perhaps an Apple OS? It doesn’t really matter, because your computer is probably running MINIX anyway.
There once was a time when microprocessors were relatively straightforward devices, capable of being understood more or less in their entirety by a single engineer without especially God-like skills. They had buses upon which hung peripherals, and for code to run on them, one of those peripherals had better supply it.
A modern high-end processor is a complex multicore marvel of technological achievement, so labyrinthine in fact that unlike …read more
