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 ...

Before Linux, GNU was working on its own Mach-based Unix compatible OS. Now, in the footsteps of Debian 13, there is a new release.… Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU ...

We really like Mac OS X. Really. We now use it as our default OS and, overall, would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and would ...

We can all admit that Mac OS X has the best GUI hands down. Anybody who argues that is a blithering idiot and should be shot on sight. Anyway, I'm now going to talk about Mac OS X for what it is - a ...

Linux isn't the only open-source operating system (OS). There are also a number of Unix-like open-source BSD operating systems, including FreeBSD, that are still in active development. The FreeBSD ...

IDC reports Windows and Linux have moved up a notch in the server market, while Unix and z/OS slipped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Apple's forthcoming release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is the first BSD-based operating system to receive the UNIX 03 certification, placing the Mac maker among an elite group of official UNIX 03 ...

Everything I can gather from them thus far just says 'UNIX skills.' I haven't formally accepted their offer yet, we are still negotiatiing, but I will ask specifically once I do. Or it might be AIX, ...

The Open Group has confirmed that Apple's latest OS X client software and server both meet the latest Unix 03 standards Enterprise IT shops looking for more options in computer operating systems now ...

According to Jordan Hubbard, Apple’s manager of BSD technologies, Apple is working hard to make Mac OS X as seamless a change as possible to the many UNIX users out there. Most importantly, Apple ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is introducing a long-awaited upgrade to its Unix operating system (OS) and launching new, affordable Integrity servers in a direct challenge to rival products from IBM Corp.