Unix is a trademarked name used for marketing purposes. Beyond that there are just the obvious technical differences. There is no need or push for linux to become a "true" unix since that is just a ...

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 ...

But if you want to browse the internet, stream, or use most productivity software or office suites, you’ll find a capable ...

On 03:14:08 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, aka Coordinated Universal Time) January 19, 2038 (that's a Tuesday), the world ends. Well, not in the biblical Book of Revelations sense. But, what will happen is ...

I see a lot of headlines these days about “big data” and immediately identify. I think of all the big data problems that I’ve grappled with over the years and imagine what the key problems with ...

Many people have read that post by Linus Torvalds in the comp.os.minix newsgroup on Usenet, or at least heard about it. Many more are aware of how that (free) operating system ended up taking over ...

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

When you ask google for innovations in Linux what you get is rather disappointing - on the first page there's somebody's rather uninformed attack on Linux as lacking innovation, some PR bumbf, and ...

While Novell’s ownership of Unix was confirmed by a jury earlier this week, Novell’s future as an independent company, at least in its current form, is far from secure. With the recent jury ruling, a ...