Commercial enterprise UNIX today reminds me of vintage clothes and furniture. Just when you think certain things have become passé in favor of newer more modern things, they are somehow revived ...

Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the ...

Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round Comment Linux distro wars are nothing new. "Advocacy" (a euphemism ...

Within the Unix ecosystem, IBM has taken advantage of the turmoil at HP, as well as the uncertainty that resulted from Oracle’s purchase of Sun. Forrester Vice President Richard Fichera says ...

9, 2001. That instant will be an anniversary for the Unix operating system: It marks one billion seconds since midnight on Jan. 1, 1970, which is the moment Unix computers recognize as zero-time.

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 ...

RHEL 10 becomes the first major enterprise Linux distro to discard traditional packaging and embrace immutable. See how we ...

This concerns The Open Group. Many organizations that procure Unix systems do so in the knowledge that an operating system certified by our organization to use the Unix trademark conforms--and ...

Kernighan also named Unix and first demonstrated the "Hello, world" code example. He spoke with Ars Technica's Richard Jensen for a 50th anniversary history of Unix. "It's always been an ...

Fixes are still evolving. In the meantime, a nice web page for “playing with” Unix/Linux timestamps is available at the unixtimestamp page. Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems ...

Unix is a multi-user operating system deep into the kernel level of its operations. Unix-like operating systems that are commonly used in the workplace include OS X and every variety of Linux ...