Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

COMMENTARY--Whoever said the first casualty of war is truth would be surprised to find that apothegm quoted in a dispute between systems vendors. But it is an apt description of current events. The ...

Unix India has announced the launch of its new portable wireless speaker, the Unix Pop Beat, designed to combine compact ...

Commercial enterprise UNIX today reminds me of vintage clothes and furniture. Just when you think certain things have become passé in favor of newer more modern things, they are somehow revived and ...

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a viable ...

A lot of programs are designed to only work with IP sockets, however very few of them allow to communicate via Unix domain sockets. Unix domain sockets usually are just files, so standard Unix file ...

The ZIP archive is recognized by most operating systems, thus making it useful for compressing and archiving files regardless of the OS that your employees or customers use. If your company uses one ...

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 ...

If you’ve just started reading and learning about Linux, you might have encountered the term “Unix”. The word itself looks similar to Linux, but what does it mean? Perhaps you’re wondering: what is ...

Unix India has introduced its latest portable Bluetooth speaker, the Pop Beat, combining 7W high-bass audio, RGB lighting ...