Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

Unix is among the oldest and most reliable operating systems. Developed in the late 1960s and early '70s at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, Unix was never seen as a cash cow for Ma Bell. In fact, AT&T ...

When thinking about the future of Unix, it’s important to consider a bit of history, as well as current market dynamics. Look at different flavors of Unix — Linux and Solaris, for example. They ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.… UNIX V4, the first ever ...

When we think of important historical discoveries, many of us probably imagine big archaeological finds, such as the LiDAR-assisted discovery of two mountain cities in eastern Uzbekistan in 2024. But ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more than $1 billion. Analysts say the move is a desperate one. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...