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 ...

Linux and UNIX are very similar to each other, but they have some common differences – discover what they are in this blog to find out which one is right for your organisation. The history of the UNIX ...

BSD and Linux use different kernels and package managers. BSD is closer to a pure Unix experience. The FreeBSD installer is no-frills and terminal-based, and there are post-installation steps if you ...

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 SCO Group, arguably, isn’t making many friends in the Linux camp these days. In March it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly misusing Unix code to bolster Linux efforts. SCO owns ...

Even the most mission-critical Unix-based central business systems are being replaced by Linux running on commodity hardware, according to delegates at the Linuxworld 2006 Conference and Expo in ...

When Novell jumped into the SCO vs. Linux fight, most of us weren’t aware that the networking company was already deep in negotiations to buy SuSE Linux. While this might make its actions more ...

Microsoft has made an undisclosed investment in Vintela, a company that aims to consolidate management tools for several operating systems, this week. Vintela has developed an application called ...