Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

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 ...

Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...

I want to use text based linux, not X. Because I know this laptop won't be able to run it very well. Any suggestions as to what Unix-based operating system I should put on here? FreeBSD 4.3? RedHat?

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the rampant ...

Macintosh servers and workstations might not be the black sheep of network and systems management any longer. The reason, IT executives say, is that a new version of Apple’s Unix-based operating ...

Mac OS X has a UNIX-based foundation, called Darwin, which evolved from a joint effort by Apple engineers and programmers in the Open Source software community. Darwin is distributed under Apple’s ...

The company is making a play to lure Unix and Linux users to its Mac OS X operating system. Will a windowing environment do the trick? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

The command-line terminal is still one of the most popular features of Linux, even though graphical interfaces have been common in desktop computers for decades. There are a few reasons for the ...