This Thursday PlayStation 3 owners who install a firmware update will find that the ability to run other operating systems—such as Linux—will be removed. Most people won’t even notice, but hacker ...

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot, ...

People talking about booting things on Turing machines might enjoy this recent one from Ken Shirriff on the Minuteman III missile's guidance system. It has NO RAM and uses serial processing, reading ...

Yeah that is exactly what he is going to do on the one he built for his office. I hope it does boot before 2038 specifically otherwise he's going to have to go back and rewrite all the time_t stuff ...