[Balint] has a bit of history in dealing with software defined radios and cheap USB TV tuners turned into what would have been very expensive hardware a few years ago. Now [Balint] is finally posting ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

It’s the vision that elicited a beatific smile from Alan Turing, a Bela Lugosi-like cackle from John von Neumann, and a cannabis-tinged giggle from 1970s-era PC creators: Imagine a universal machine, ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

GNU grep is an utility for finding specified patterns in files; GNU sed takes text input, performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and outputs the modified text. Bonzini said he had also ...

Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for ...

RMS is still well known in free software and open-source circles for his work. He first built his reputation by taking James Gosling's Emacs text editor and relicensing it under GNU Public License ...

At the international GNU Health Conference (GHCon) in Hanover, participants of the GNU Health Community and the OrthancCon discussed areas of application for free software in health care as well as ...

Unix, one of the earliest computer-operating systems, was developed between the late nineteen-sixties and the early nineteen-eighties, by A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories and various universities around ...