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 ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

The race to become the operating system of the Internet is just beginning to heat up. It’s no longer about Windows vs. Linux vs. Unix. Or Intel vs. SPARC. The focus of this scenario is on the ...

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

When attackers take advantage of an exploit, one of their first goals is to gain superuser (root or administrator) access to the compromised system. If the compromised process is already running with ...

Linux distributor Caldera took a major step towards unifying the Linux and Unix operating systems on Monday when it unveiled Open Unix 8 -- its Linux/Unix hybrid. Open Unix 8 will allow Linux ...

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 ...

MKS supports various Make programs, giving users a choice between GMake, NMake and MKS Make. When Windows NT was introduced in the mid-1990s, MKS rolled out the Nutcracker tool, designed to port code ...

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 been ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...