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 ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the ...

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 … ...

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 ...

Multihosted operating systems and shared storage The simplest approach to learning Linux while still maintaining the Unix operating system is to install both operating systems on the same machine.

Indeed, OS X is a fully featured Unix operating system (certified as Unix by the Open Standard Groups).

Unix was the most-used operating system at the time, both commercially and in academic institutions. For the individuals, however, Unix was just too expensive to use.