Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

The history of computing is littered with the remains of forgotten operating systems—some rendered obsolete by technological progress, some that never quite captured the public imagination, and some ...

A momentous occasion in computing history has been achieved with the release of the Virtual OS Museum. A lone developer has collected over 1700 OS installs across over 250 emulated hardware platforms ...

Explore Android's ongoing evolution with this visual timeline of versions, starting B.C. (Before Cupcake) and going all the ...

In 1995, another PC operating system launched its first version around the same time as Windows 95 was released. It was called BeOS, and it tried to become an alternative to Windows and Mac. Last week ...

A NeXTcube computer running the NeXTSTEP operating system. Simon Claessen / Flickr Today marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of NeXTSTEP, a computer operating system launched by Steve Jobs during ...

Explore the rise and fall of these groundbreaking Linux systems, and how their legacies live on.