| Date / Time |
Story |
| Saturday March 28, 2026 @10:49PM |
What Made Bell Labs So Successful? |
| Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:51AM |
That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History |
| Monday January 05, 2026 @01:20AM |
Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX |
| Saturday December 20, 2025 @10:00PM |
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball |
| Sunday December 07, 2025 @02:27AM |
New FreeBSD 15 Retires 32-Bit Ports and Modernizes Builds |
| Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:28AM |
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973 |
| Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:05PM |
OpenBSD 7.8 Released |
| Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:48PM |
KDE Plasma 6.5 Released |
| Monday May 26, 2025 @12:52AM |
FreeBSD: 'We're Still Here. (Let's Share Use Cases!)' |
| Saturday March 22, 2025 @03:27PM |
Rebooting A Retro PDP-11 Workstation - and Its Classic 'Venix' UNIX |
| Friday October 25, 2024 @10:11PM |
DTrace for Linux Comes to Gentoo |
| Saturday July 06, 2024 @10:43PM |
FreeBSD Contributor Mocks Gloomy Predictions for the Open Source Movement |
| Thursday June 20, 2024 @04:29PM |
X Window System Turns 40 |
| Friday June 14, 2024 @05:09PM |
Version 256 of systemd Boasts '42% Less Unix Philosophy' |
| Wednesday June 05, 2024 @07:12PM |
Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died |
| Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:19AM |
OpenBSD 7.5 Released |
| Saturday March 30, 2024 @05:43PM |
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released |
| Sunday February 25, 2024 @12:20PM |
Remembering How Plan 9 Evolved at Bell Labs |
| Saturday January 27, 2024 @10:41PM |
Remembering Unix Desktops - and What We Can Learn From Them |
| Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:41PM |
Should New Jersey's Old Bell Labs Become a 'Museum of the Internet'? |
| Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:53PM |
Wine 9.0 Released |
| Friday October 20, 2023 @05:17PM |
OpenBSD 7.4 Released |
| Friday January 20, 2023 @06:32PM |
Six Years Later, HPE and Oracle Quietly Shut Door On Solaris Lawsuit |
| Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:16PM |
OSnews Decries 'The Mass Extinction of Unix Workstations' |
| Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:14PM |
'The Mass Extinction of Unix Workstations' |
| Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:51PM |
OpenBSD 7.2 Released |
| Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:59PM |
Unix Legend Adding Unicode Support To AWK - Once He Figures Out Git |
| Friday August 12, 2022 @03:58PM |
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware |
| Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:33PM |
OpenBSD 7.1 Released with Support for Apple M1, Improvements for ARM64 and RISC-V |
| Friday April 15, 2022 @05:02PM |
Solaris 11.4 Free For Open-Source Devs, Non-Production Use |
| Sunday April 10, 2022 @08:48PM |
Some Videogames Suddenly 'Expiring' on Classic PS3, Vita Consoles |
| Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:07PM |
OpenBSD 7.0 Released |
| Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:02AM |
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle |
| Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:34PM |
FreeBSD 13 Released |
| Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:02PM |
UNIX's Founders Created Another OS at Bell Labs: 'Plan 9' |
| Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:52AM |
FreeBSD's Close Call: How Flawed Code Almost Made It Into the Kernel |
| Friday February 12, 2021 @09:15PM |
Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix? |
| Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:21PM |
FreeBSD and Its Code of Conduct Anniversary |
| Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:12PM |
KDE Plasma 5.19 Released |
| Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:26AM |
KDE Plasma 5.19 released |
| Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:05AM |
Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap |
| Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:35PM |
OpenBSD 6.7 Released |
| Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:54PM |
Serious Flaw That Lurked In Sudo For 9 Years Hands Over Root Privileges |
| Sunday October 20, 2019 @06:27PM |
Project Trident Ditches BSD For Linux |
| Monday October 14, 2019 @06:31PM |
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root |
| Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:25PM |
Bell Labs Plans Big 50th Anniversary Event For Unix |
| Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:29PM |
Computer Historians Crack Passwords of Unix's Early Pioneers |
| Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:04PM |
GNOME 3.34 Released |
| Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:37PM |
Some Original Berkeley Unix Pioneers Still Work On The FreeBSD Project |
| Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:01AM |
Can Swap Space Solve System Performance Issues? |
| Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:13PM |
Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Developer Charles Simonyi |
| Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:10AM |
FreeBSD 12 Released |
| Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:56PM |
OpenBSD 6.4 Released |
| Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:00PM |
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released |
| Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:00PM |
KDE Plasma 5.14 released |
| Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:28PM |
Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better |
| Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:49PM |
Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings |
| Monday April 23, 2018 @05:00PM |
Mosaic, the First HTML Browser That Could Display Images Alongside Text, Turns 25 |
| Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:54PM |
Wine 3.0 Released |
| Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:50PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? |
| Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:21PM |
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms |
| Friday October 20, 2017 @09:18PM |
Security Upgraded For NetBSD-amd64 with Kernel ASLR Support |
| Monday October 09, 2017 @04:29PM |
OpenBSD 6.2 Released |
| Sunday July 09, 2017 @12:15AM |
48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected |
| Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:32PM |
OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot |
| Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:27PM |
ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 |
| Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:33PM |
NetBSD 7.1 Released |
| Saturday October 29, 2016 @12:20PM |
NetBSD Project Releases NetBSD 7.0.2 |
| Friday October 14, 2016 @01:01AM |
KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! |
| Saturday October 08, 2016 @10:30PM |
After 22 Years, 386BSD Gets An Update |
| Saturday October 08, 2016 @05:57PM |
Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro |
| Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:47PM |
OpenBSD 6.0 Released |
| Friday June 03, 2016 @08:39PM |
Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon |
| Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:07PM |
Badlock Vulnerability Falls Flat Against Hype |
| Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:34AM |
13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal |
| Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:21AM |
Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 |
| Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:55PM |
Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong |
| Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:43PM |
OpenBSD 5.9 released early! |
| Monday March 21, 2016 @09:15AM |
Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL |
| Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:21PM |
Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings |
| Monday March 07, 2016 @01:32AM |
BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released |
| Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:33PM |
SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead |
| Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:42PM |
PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel |
| Wednesday February 10, 2016 @09:36PM |
SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over |
| Sunday January 31, 2016 @12:12PM |
GNU Hurd Begins Supporting Sound, Still Working On 64-bit & USB Support |
| Friday December 04, 2015 @07:51PM |
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default |
| Tuesday November 03, 2015 @02:08PM |
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon |
| Sunday November 01, 2015 @09:33AM |
GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released |
| Sunday October 18, 2015 @12:17PM |
Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 |
| Tuesday October 13, 2015 @11:42AM |
NetBSD 7.0 Released |
| Sunday October 04, 2015 @08:36PM |
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going |
| Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:03PM |
30 Years a Sysadmin |
| Saturday July 25, 2015 @04:47PM |
HardenedBSD Completes Strong ASLR Implementation |
| Wednesday May 06, 2015 @03:04PM |
Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? |
| Thursday April 16, 2015 @05:27PM |
GNU Hurd 0.6 Released |
| Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:12PM |
OpenBSD's Kernel Gets W^X Treatment On Amd64 |
| Friday January 09, 2015 @09:35AM |
OpenBSD Releases a Portable Version of OpenNTPD |
| Tuesday December 09, 2014 @01:47PM |
Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 |
| Friday November 14, 2014 @05:59PM |
FreeBSD 10.1 Released |
| Thursday September 25, 2014 @01:57PM |
Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild |
| Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:35PM |
Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash |
| Sunday September 07, 2014 @10:50PM |
GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD |
| Thursday July 10, 2014 @10:44AM |
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University |
| Monday June 16, 2014 @09:30PM |
DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix |
| Saturday May 31, 2014 @03:40PM |
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out |
| Friday May 30, 2014 @07:27PM |
Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods |
| Thursday April 24, 2014 @10:09AM |
Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet |
| Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:02PM |
Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age |
| Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:11AM |
Red Hat Grants Award for Unix-to-Linux Migration Smarts |
| Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:52PM |
BSD Real-Time Operating System NuttX Makes Its 100th Release: NuttX 6.33 |
| Wednesday January 29, 2014 @06:03PM |
Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers |
| Monday December 30, 2013 @11:28PM |
If UNIX Were a Religion |
| Thursday December 26, 2013 @03:34PM |
How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? |
| Sunday December 15, 2013 @09:21PM |
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security |
| Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:57AM |
DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling |
| Saturday November 16, 2013 @08:46PM |
Yearly FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Campaign Is On |
| Saturday November 02, 2013 @09:24AM |
OpenBSD 5.4 Released |
| Friday November 01, 2013 @07:47PM |
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then |
| Saturday September 28, 2013 @06:18AM |
New Unix Implementation Turns 30 |
| Saturday September 28, 2013 @06:10AM |
GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released |
| Sunday June 30, 2013 @11:30PM |
FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems |
| Tuesday June 25, 2013 @08:16AM |
PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD |
| Friday June 21, 2013 @09:30PM |
Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD |
| Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:43AM |
SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened |
| Friday June 07, 2013 @07:56AM |
FreeBSD 8.4 Released |
| Sunday May 19, 2013 @01:04AM |
NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped |
| Thursday May 16, 2013 @05:36PM |
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? |
| Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:07AM |
OpenBSD 5.3 Released |
| Sunday March 31, 2013 @10:55PM |
Quick, somebody tell SCO! More patent trolling on UNIX |
| Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:29PM |
Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime |
| Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:46PM |
Minix 3.2.1 Released |
| Saturday February 23, 2013 @10:37AM |
Minix 3.2.1 Released |
| Friday February 15, 2013 @08:09PM |
The State of BSD At the Start of 2013 |
| Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:11PM |
You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows |
| Sunday December 30, 2012 @05:35PM |
New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD |
| Tuesday December 11, 2012 @08:49AM |
FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% |
| Saturday November 17, 2012 @10:03AM |
FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key |
| Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:56PM |
FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM |
| Friday November 02, 2012 @08:48PM |
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? |
| Friday November 02, 2012 @05:09PM |
Ask Slashdot: Availability of Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? |
| Saturday October 20, 2012 @10:42AM |
ACM Queue Interviews Robert Watson On Open Source Hardware and Research |
| Wednesday October 17, 2012 @02:36PM |
NetBSD 6.0 has shipped |
| Tuesday October 16, 2012 @11:32AM |
Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) |
| Thursday October 04, 2012 @05:06PM |
Oracle's Sparc T5 Chip Evidently Pushed Back to 2013 |
| Monday September 17, 2012 @02:21PM |
X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old |
| Friday August 31, 2012 @01:59AM |
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? |
| Sunday August 05, 2012 @08:09PM |
CDE Open Sourced |
| Friday August 03, 2012 @11:31AM |
Rob Pike on the Origin of Dot Files |
| Wednesday July 04, 2012 @10:49AM |
John the Ripper Cracks Slow Hashes On GPU |
| Sunday June 10, 2012 @08:55AM |
X11 7.7 Released, Brings Multi-Touch Input |
| Thursday June 07, 2012 @11:29AM |
MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe |
| Friday June 01, 2012 @07:43PM |
Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux |
| Sunday May 13, 2012 @12:46PM |
FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC |
| Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:04AM |
Amusing Unix admin tools |
| Wednesday April 11, 2012 @09:43AM |
Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo |
| Tuesday April 10, 2012 @03:02PM |
Remote root Hole in Samba |
| Friday April 06, 2012 @04:17PM |
Mutt Fork Adds Features From Notmuch |
| Wednesday March 07, 2012 @01:23PM |
Wine 1.4 Released |
| Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:42AM |
MINIX 3.2 Released With Some Major Changes |
| Sunday February 26, 2012 @12:36AM |
DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released |
| Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:30AM |
Internet Systems Consortium Seeks Wider Input For BIND 10 |
| Thursday December 08, 2011 @02:05PM |
Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools |
| Friday December 02, 2011 @02:23PM |
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix |
| Sunday November 20, 2011 @10:27AM |
Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing |
| Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:31PM |
Solaris 11 released |
| Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:32AM |
In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop |
| Wednesday November 02, 2011 @07:47AM |
OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World |
| Monday October 31, 2011 @08:11AM |
Dennis Ritchie Day |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @08:03AM |
Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:09AM |
Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and C, has died |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:03AM |
RIP Dennis Ritchie |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:26AM |
Dennis Ritchie, father of C and Unix reported dead |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @05:34AM |
Dennis Ritchie has died. |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @05:32AM |
Dennis Ritchie dies after unknown illness |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @03:55AM |
RIP Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:38AM |
Dennis Ritchie, kill -9 |
| Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:36PM |
Dennis Ritchie died today |
| Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:35PM |
Dennis Ritchie is dead |
| Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:26PM |
Dennis Ritchie has died |
| Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:15PM |
Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language |
| Friday October 07, 2011 @06:49AM |
Copyright trolls close Linux time database |
| Friday September 23, 2011 @11:38PM |
PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills |
| Thursday September 22, 2011 @09:54AM |
SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? |
| Wednesday July 20, 2011 @03:43AM |
OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release |
| Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:03PM |
Early UNIX Contributor Robert Morris Dead at 78 |
| Thursday June 30, 2011 @03:28PM |
Robert Morris, early UNIX designer, passes |
| Monday June 20, 2011 @10:24PM |
PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo |
| Monday June 20, 2011 @09:23PM |
PlanetLab creates a more advanced sudo |
| Tuesday June 07, 2011 @03:43PM |
Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? |
| Thursday May 19, 2011 @01:54PM |
Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine |
| Wednesday May 18, 2011 @04:09PM |
GNOME to drop support for BSD, Solaris, Unix? |
| Friday May 06, 2011 @06:44PM |
Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? |
| Sunday May 01, 2011 @11:47PM |
OpenBSD 4.9 Released |
| Monday March 07, 2011 @11:56AM |
Why Windows Server Deserves Your Respect |
| Thursday March 03, 2011 @02:30PM |
SCO Found No Source Code In 2004 |
| Wednesday March 02, 2011 @09:02AM |
The Decline and Fall of System Administration |
| Tuesday March 01, 2011 @07:35PM |
The Decline and Fall of System Administration |
| Monday February 21, 2011 @01:35PM |
Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers |
| Monday February 14, 2011 @12:19PM |
Nine Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin |
| Friday January 28, 2011 @07:33PM |
Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through |
