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 ...

Back on September 12, fellow blogger Marc Wagner wrote a long rebuttal to my comment that the Linux community should stop trying to make Linux look like Windows and just let Linux be Linux. As part of ...

Efforts to stop Linux from splitting into incompatible versions--the plight that hobbled Unix--move forward as key companies get behind a standardization plan. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

在 Build 2026 开发者大会上，微软宣布推出 Coreutils for Windows。这是一套由微软官方维护的 Unix 风格命令行工具集，能够直接原生运行在 Windows 系统上，无需依赖 WSL（Windows Subsystem ...

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 ...

I would like to know what are the real differences between linux and unix? I've been told that linux came from unix but I'm yet to see why one is better or are they both pretty much the same thing.

IT之家 6 月 3 日消息，科技媒体 bleepingcomputer 今天（6 月 3 日）发布博文，报道称在 2026 Build 开发者大会上， 微软推出适用于 Windows 11 系统的 Coreutils，以原生 Windows 应用形式，把常见 Linux 命令带到系统中。

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 ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

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 ...

At the Linux Foundation’s annual conference in August, IBM VP Brad McCredie told the crowd something that was probably unthinkable when Linus Torvalds created his new operating system kernel two ...