Practical Technology

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, operating a General…Read More

I have 2 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of fiber internet in my home for $120 a month. I’m lucky. I have access to that kind of broadband and the money to pay for it. Many people aren’t that fortunate. On Wednesday, May 1, the Affordable Connectivity…Read More

Some people update to the latest version of an operating system as soon as it’s available. Others hang on to their old operating system until it’s covered in cobwebs and dust. Red Hat lets you do both. The Linux and hyper-cloud leader today released…Read More

Opinion One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can’t make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies “steal” their open source services. True, at one time, the hyper-clouds took more than…Read More

It’s no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? As Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s VP of the developer community, and Jeff Wilcox, head of Microsoft’s Open…Read More

First things first. There really is such a thing as a numbat. It’s a pocket-sized marsupial anteater (see above). And now, it’s also the mascot for Canonical’s latest Linux distro, Ubuntu 24.04. I’ve been running Noble Numbat on my 2020 vintage Dell…Read More