The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a ...

And Monday brings news that IBM and Linux are going to get even cozier, as Big Blue announces the first Unix-based operating system that natively runs Linux applications. Last week was a bad one ...

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 ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.

At Bell Labs, Ritchie met Thompson, who had worked on a failed project to write a new operating system. The pair re-imagined the idea and developed UNIX in conjunction with the C programming language.

The team did deliver Unix as a text processing application to the Patent Department, but an operating system was what Bell eventually got—albeit a rough one at first.