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 ...

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 ...

在这艰难的时代里，观众中热爱计算机考古的朋友们将迎来一次难得的体验。还记得上周在犹他大学发现并恢复的Unix v4磁带吗？得益于现代浏览器的强大功能以及Mitch Riedstra的努力，你现在可以在浏览器模拟器中直接运行它。

A：主要挑战是碎片化问题，包括过多的桌面环境选择、软件包管理系统不兼容、以及缺乏主要PC制造商的强力支持。目前有十多种重要的Linux桌面界面，让用户难以选择。 A：解决方案是使用容器化软件包交付系统，如 Flatpaks、Snaps 和 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Linux, also known as GNU/Linux, is a free, UNIX-like operating system, developed originally for home PCs, but which now runs on practically every hardware platform available including PowerPC, ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

In the 1990s and well into the 2000s, if you had mission-critical applications that required zero downtime, resiliency, failover and high performance, but didn’t want a mainframe, Unix was your go-to ...