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 ...

BSD is descended from Unix, while Linux was written as a lookalike of Unix. BSD and Linux use different kernels and package managers. BSD is closer to a pure Unix experience. The FreeBSD installer ...

Since Linux and Minix are too, and since they’re both modeled on the core Unix design elements from v7, it makes sense to say that they are Unix, even if they aren’t UNIX®–just like FreeBSD ...

Windows and Linux/Unix, however, are quite different. ... But in the case of Unix, Linux also brings the option of moving from proprietary hardware to off-the-shelf x86-architecture PCs.

Microsoft this month talked about how its latest Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 improvements can help with the management of Linux and Unix servers.

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 ...

This ad hoc and fragmented approach typically leads to different security requirements for Windows, Unix and Linux. However, what works well for Windows doesn’t necessarily play well in the ...

A Unix OS meanwhile is the entirety of the tools and applications (‘userland’) that accompany it, something which is provided for Linux-based distributions most commonly from the GNU (‘GNU ...

Windows and Linux/Unix, however, are quite different. ... But in the case of Unix, Linux also brings the option of moving from proprietary hardware to off-the-shelf x86-architecture PCs.