Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was originally developed in 1969 as a lighter weight timesharing system for a … ...

Linux isn't a certified Unix system, and some say it definitely isn't Unix. The key question for a business is if a commercial Unix flavor is enough like Linux that you can make an easy transition ...

UNIX is still breathing. It's still widely used in enterprise data centers. It's still running huge, complex, key applications for companies that absolutely, positively need those apps to run. And ...

Unix Details The creators of Unix originally intended the operating system for computing operations inside Bell Labs. But in the late 1970s, AT&T sold Unix variants for academic and commercial ...

There's a simple, personal bottom line to this: Unix is Unix, the benefits come from openness, community, and 50 years of consistent progress in the implementation of a handful of key ideas.

The "What's the difference between UNIX and Linux?" question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT ...

Unix was created 40 years ago this summer. Computerworld looks back on what some have said is one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

Big data may be a tech buzzword of the moment, but Unix admins who need to hunt through logs to figure out what's going with their systems have been grappling with huge data sets for decades. Here ...

NTP, however, isn’t just about synchronizing systems with each other. NTP is about setting system clocks accurately. When derived from the most accurate clocks in the world, after all, the time ...

There is undoubtedly a huge difference in the number of viruses written for Microsoft platforms and those written for Unix. However, contrary to popular belief, this is not because Microsoft ...