Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference. The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started ...

SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive because the chance to emerge as ...

摘要：程序员都知道，Linux 不是 Unix，不过二者之间确实存在关系，即 Linux 系统是从 Unix 派生出来的，而 Linux是一个类 Unix 的操作系统。那么，二者之间具体存在哪些明显的差异呢？ 网上很多有关POSIX和Unix工具的教程和指南总是假设你安装了Linux，或者更具体地 ...

If you're thinking about programming or just learning to code, you might notice that developers tend to favor Linux. Why is that? Here are the reasons you should care about Linux's hold over ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

Linux 内核创始人 Linus Torvalds 正式宣布发布 Linux 7.1，这是 Linux 内核最新的稳定版本。新版本带来了大量硬件支持改进、文件系统增强、安全功能升级以及底层性能优化，为服务器、桌面和嵌入式设备用户带来更加完善的使用体验。 作为 Linux 7.x 系列的重要更新，Linux 7.1 涵盖了存储、网络、安全、处理器支持以及驱动程序等多个领域的改进，其中最引人关注的莫 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...