On 28 July 2025, a researcher from the University of Utah was cleaning out a storage room when he found a nine-track magnetic tape whose label read UNIX version 4. Until then, only the manual had survived from that version of 1973. … Read more
Before Linux, Windows, and macOS became the desktop landscape, an operating system meant a technician flipping switches on a mainframe. From 1969 to 2026, the history forms a tree: Unix, DOS, Xerox GUIs, Linus’s kernel, … Read more
Want to try Swift on Linux without starting a huge project? Let's install the language using the official method from swift.org, run a Hello World, generate a binary, and put together a small terminal tool with arguments. The goal is to leave … Read more
Open any Linux server and you will find five different languages running at the same time, unaware of each other. The kernel is C. docker and kubectl are Go. The help desk dashboard is PHP — or Perl, … Read more
Free software did not begin in 2017, and it did not begin at Facebook. It began with GNU (1983), the kernel a Finnish student released as a hobby (1991), and the Open Source Initiative’s definition (1998). What the industry did afterward — … Read more
Windows XP lost support on April 8, 2014. The Luna look — blue taskbar, green hills, green Start button — did not. In 2017, this post installed the Lubuntu XP three flavors package on Lubuntu/LXDE. In 2026 … Read more
With a new webmail interface It looks like Synacor, Zimbra’s owner at this point, is doing a great job — unlike some companies that bought the software and did practically nothing. Synacor is driving an evolution … Read more
Apple announced APFS (Apple File System) at WWDC 2016. In March 2017, iOS 10.3 converted the iPhone’s flash storage without users noticing. In September of that year, High Sierra did the same on SSDs … Read more
The tax lion still lives on Linux. The Brazilian Federal Revenue Service’s tax return program (PGD) runs on x86_64 with the official installer. You can also file through e-CAC without downloading anything, or through the Receita Federal app. This post is the path … Read more
Hexo is a static site generator in Node.js: Markdown goes in, HTML comes out, no database. GitHub Pages, Netlify, or nginx pointing to public/. In September 2026, the hexo npm package is at 8.1.2. The official CLI remains npm install … Read more
