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 ...

"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 ...

Electronics as a hobby and knowledge of the boundaries between hardware and software have long been something too expensive and too obfuscated for most people to access. It hasn’t been until the last ...

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 ...

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. The earthquake and ...

Wheelwright, Steven C. "Sun Microsystems and the UNIX Operating System: Creation of a Standard?" Harvard Business School Case 690-039, December 1989. (Revised February 1990.) ...

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 ...