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 ...

The Linux server market is expected to grow by 35% from last year, according to research firm IDC. Many of these Linux systems are replacing Unix in corporations looking to reduce IT costs. However, ...

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 ...

As chief executive of Caldera International, Ransom Love is on the forefront of developing open-source software for business computing. In a question-and-answer session, he describes his vision of ...

At the Linux Foundation’s annual conference in August, IBM VP Brad McCredie told the crowd something that was probably unthinkable when Linus Torvalds created his new operating system kernel two ...

The US Government has reported that fewer vulnerabilities were found in Windows than in Linux/Unix operating systems in 2005. Linux/Unix-based operating systems — a set that includes Mac OS X, as well ...

Unix time, also known as 'epoch time,' is the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. As Unix turns 50, let's take a look at what worries kernel developers. 2020 is a significant year ...