Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference. The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started ...

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 ...

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 test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

Efforts to stop Linux from splitting into incompatible versions--the plight that hobbled Unix--move forward as key companies get behind a standardization plan. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...

I would like to know what are the real differences between linux and unix? I've been told that linux came from unix but I'm yet to see why one is better or are they both pretty much the same thing.

IT之家 7 月 8 日消息，科技媒体 Tom's Hardware 昨日（7 月 7 日）发布博文，报道称围绕 Unix 相关版权代码争议，Xinuos 与 IBM 两家公司再次于 6 月 22 日对簿公堂，相关诉讼仍在延续。

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 ...

SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive because the chance to emerge as ...

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

Rebuilding an operating system from zero is a wild bet.