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 … ...

Virtual OS hosting Another approach to integrating Linux with Unix is to virtually host one operating system on another by using a commercial product such as VMware. In this way, the host ...

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 ...

Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the ...

A new operating system will be launching in a few days time via Kickstarter in the form of Verenitti OS, offering a UNIX-like OS alternative to Windows 10, Linux and Mac OS. The Verenitti OS has ...

NEW PROVIDENCE — Dennis Ritchie was supposed to travel to Tokyo last month to receive the prestigious Japan Prize for his role in inventing the UNIX computer operating system.

WIth the 50th birthday of the UNIX operating system being in the news of late, there has been a bit of a spotlight shone upon its earliest origins. At the Living Computers museum in Seattle though ...

This operating system is still the standard for some universities and corporations that have been in business for multiple decades. Features of Linux Since Linux is an open-source clone of UNIX, there ...

Their goal was to write a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system (OS) and in August 1969, a programmer at AT&T Bell Laboratories started work on the first ever version of Unix.

A U.S. federal court decision on Friday over software widely used on corporate servers ruled that Novell, and not SCO Group, was the rightful owner of copyrights covering the Unix operating system.