"Enjoy putting on your professional-grade putting green, fishing in your private pond stocked with bass and bluegill, and ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13 ...

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 … ...

I needed virtual machines for several reasons: We cover six UNIX and Linux operating systems, but our lab only had a Solaris system, an HP-UX host, and an AIX server.

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures.

A federal court in Utah ruled that Novell Inc., not SCO Group Inc., is the rightful owner of the copyright in the Unix operating system. The ruling is a boon to the "open source" software movement ...

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 ...

According to the User's Guide and Inso, there are two supported Version 3.x.x releases of the DynaText browsers for several Unix and non-Unix operating systems.

But my gut feel for this is that Unix is indeed the world's most successful operating system ever. 900 million concurrent users? I don't think even Windows has managed that.

O’Reilly & Associates has released “Learning Unix for Mac OS X,” a new US$19.95 book by Dave Taylor and Jerry Peek that offers an introduction to getting started with Unix functions on Mac OS X.