A good package manager makes Linux life a lot simpler, especially for those will little experience. These are the ones I ...

When a company says its product is built on open source, you might want to read the fine print ...

In the race among No. 1 Unix server seller Sun Microsystems, No. 2 Hewlett-Packard and No. 3 IBM, a key feature has been the ability to split the server into several separate “partitions,” a domain ...

From wobbly windows to Windows running Linux, the Linux desktop has had one wild ride!

Microsoft last week made available for free its Services for Unix software, which helps integrate Unix and Windows, and supports migrations of Unix applications to the Microsoft platform. Microsoft ...

Big Blue is set to release improvements to its AIX version of Unix that makes the software better able to juggle multiple jobs in the same machine. In the race among No. 1 Unix server seller Sun ...

The Unix operating system has been around for decades, and it and its lookalikes (mainly Linux) are a critical part of the computing world. Apple’s operating system, macOS, is Unix-based, as are ...

The flaws, which range from minor slipups in rarely used applications to more serious vulnerabilities in software that ships with most versions of the Linux operating system, were found as part of ...

Originally written in one month during the summer of ’69, a little operating system called Unix would go on to be one of the most important pieces of software ever written. Four decades later, the ...