I have been reading this thread a lot. I really liked the flat iOS 7 (?) UI scheme, but it took me a while to get there. Knowing that, I've been reserving judgement. I do like some of the refraction, ...

We just launched the Silent Memorabilia Auction. The first ten items are now open for bidding. Fifteen more will follow in this week. As announced, we opened the first items in the Free Software ...

TLDR: TERM=vt220 sucks as fallback default, but is to my knowledge still by far the safest best if we don't know anything. Now, many tools these days support a COLORTERM env var, with explicitly ...

In systemd for a longer time we have been defaulting to vt220 as $TERM if we have nothing better to set. This is in particular true for serial terminals/virtualized terminals in VMs, i.e a pretty ...

Original by the Free Software Foundation. Licence details at the bottom. We surpassed our year-end goal of $400,000 USD! Please help us share our appreciation for all the support we received during ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) turns forty on October 4, 2025 and we will end our thirties on a high note! We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, ...

If you’re reading Hackaday, we’re willing to bet that if somebody asked you about a serial terminal, you’d immediately think about a piece of software — a tool you run on the computer to communicate ...

HyperTerminal Private Edition is a Windows Terminal emulator that lets you connect to various systems using protocols TCP/IP Networks like Telnet, COM ports, and Dial-Up Modems. It is available for ...

A former Microsoft engineer has waxed lyrical about how he and a colleague made a sporting bet over how far a new build of Windows would get before crashing. Clue? Further than you might think.

In the early 1980s, the Rainbow was a major contendor in the struggle for the 16-bit PC market, and it had a lot of advantages over the IBM PC: It had a Z80 copressor for handling i/o and running ...