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.

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

IBMs beta testing of its AIX operating system will no longer be an invitation-only event. Last Thursday, the company announced that beta testing will be open to any users who want to download an early ...

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, ...

This November, the Unix community has another notable anniversary to celebrate: the 40th birthday of the first edition of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie’s Unix Programmers Manual, released in ...

The nasty legal battle between SCO Group and IBM may soon grow wider, as SCO executives have dropped a new bombshell. SCO Group In private interviews during their annual user conference in Las Vegas ...

Linux distributor Caldera took a major step towards unifying the Linux and Unix operating systems on Monday when it unveiled Open Unix 8 -- its Linux/Unix hybrid. Open Unix 8 will allow Linux ...

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...