Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU operating system. The announcement email from developer Samuel ...

Setting aside legal issues afflicting the word, Unix is neither a brand nor a particular product: it is a set of ideas - implemented differently by the people behind Linux, the BSDs and Solaris, ...

Linux isn't a certified Unix system, and some say it definitely isn't Unix. The key question for a business is if a commercial Unix flavor is enough like Linux that you can make an easy transition ...

One reason that I've stuck with WSL on Windows, to the point that I install it on every new Windows machine I get, instead of PowerShell is that I find the whole Linux and Unix-li ...

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 ...

Sure, Linux is popular, but fans of the OpenBSD operating system think they've got something better.

Unix time, also known as 'epoch time,' is the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. As Unix turns 50, let's take a look at what worries kernel developers.

The /etc/inittab file controls what happens whenever a Unix system is rebooted or forced to change run levels. Let's take a look at the configuration lines that tell your system what it's supposed ...