The UNIX OS definition sits at the forefront of open standards, but it didn’t start that way. In the initial years after it was created, the code was made available just for the cost of media ...

The Unix Wars failed to settle differences or set a true standard for the operating system. But in 1993, the Unix community received a wake-up call from Microsoft in the form of Windows NT, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

All that is changing, though, since the upcoming Leopard release has received the UNIX 03 certification (PDF) as of May 18, meaning that Mac OS X 10.5 on the Intel platform is a "true" UNIX OS ...

There is no doubt that having UNIX available on the Mac can be a big plus! However, OS X still has some work to do. We especially think about new Mac users, buying their first computer later this ...

Unix is one of the IT world’s few living legends. It has been in continuous use since its birth in 1969, and its storied past is like that of a nation: Inept rulers brought it to the brink of ...

The Unix operating system was born during the most creative point in any technology story: failure. One day in 1969, ...

In 1987 he wrote a Unix clone for use in his classrooms, creating the open-source Minix operating system to run on the Intel 80286 microprocessor. “Minix incorporated all the ideas of Unix, and ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a ...