Back on September 12, fellow blogger Marc Wagner wrote a long rebuttal to my comment that the Linux community should stop trying to make Linux look like Windows and just let Linux be Linux. As part of ...

Linux and UNIX are very similar to each other, but they have some common differences – discover what they are in this blog to find out which one is right for your organisation. The history of the UNIX ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

INDIA: Although many still consider UNIX the best option for high-demand applications, the technical differences between Linux and UNIX are "going to be pretty minimal" going forward, argued Gartner ...

The Unix operating system has been around for decades, and it and its lookalikes (mainly Linux) are a critical part of the computing world. Apple’s operating system, macOS, is Unix-based, as are ...

When Novell jumped into the SCO vs. Linux fight, most of us weren’t aware that the networking company was already deep in negotiations to buy SuSE Linux. While this might make its actions more ...

An operating system initially developed in the 1960s at Bell Labs. Its developers wrote it in C programming language along with assembly language. The creators of Unix originally intended the ...

It’s a good time to be a Unix technician, so long as you’re currently employed. The weak economy and the bursting of the dot-com bubble have forced high numbers of Unix professionals into the ranks of ...