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 … ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system that could be used remotely while Linus is a variant of Unix. What is the difference between Linux and Unix? Unix developed by Ken Thompson is ...

While UNIX was doing what it does best throughout the last 35+ years, it continued to be geared to the needs of the network and the needs of technical people whose job it is to get the most out of ...

Unix is a trademarked name used for marketing purposes. Beyond that there are just the obvious technical differences. There is no need or push for linux to become a "true" unix since that is just ...

Would you rather have a vendor's promise to interoperate with competitors' systems, or a contract obliging them to do it? Unix is the contract ...