The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore's Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines. Given such ...

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 ...

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, ...

Unix, most people would say, is an operating system written decades ago at AT&T’s Bell Labs, and its descendents. Today’s major versions of Unix branched off a tree with two trunks: one emanating ...

The choice between UNIX and Linux is not an easy one. These operating systems both have their upsides and downsides. There are certain things you need to consider before deciding which operating ...

"The UNIX Operating System" is a documentary that Bell Labs made in 1982 about UNIX's significance, impact and usability. Even 10 years after its first installation, it's still an introduction to the ...

UNIX is the greatest operating system family ever invented you have probably never heard about whose genius design ideas now enable everything great you love. "Unix philosophy" is a core set of ...

After four decades, the future of the Unix operating system is clouded but its legacy will endure Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one ...