Thom Holwerda

As of the previous release of POSIX, the Austin Group gained more control over the specification, having it be more working group oriented, and they got to work making the POSIX specification more modern.

There's many ways to judge if an operating system has made it to the big leagues, and one of the more unpleasant ones is the availability of malware.

Do you want OSNews to continue to exist? Do you like the selection of news items I manage to scrounge up almost every day?

Torvalds said that the current state of AI technology is 90 percent marketing and 10 percent factual reality.

Most of the time, products with “AI” features just elicit sighs, especially when the product category in question really doesn't need to have anything to do with “AI” in any way, shape, or form.

Remember Darwin ? It's the core of Apple's macOS, and the company has always – sometimes intermittently – released its source code as open source.

A few weeks ago I linked to a story by Misty De Meo , in which they explored what happened to the various eccentric Japanese PC platforms.

One of my favourite devices that never took on in the home is the thin client. Whenever I look at a fully functional Sun Microsystems thin client

VMS Software, the company migrating OpenVMS to x86 (well, virtualised x86, at least) has announced the release of OpenVMS 9.2-3 , which brings with a number of new features and changes.

There are so many ecological, environmental, and climate problems and disasters taking place all over the world that it's sometimes hard to see the burning forests through the charred tree stumps.