在计算机时代，相当一部分的人错误地认为 Unix 和 Linux 操作系统是一样的。然而，事实恰好相反。让我们仔细看看。 在 IT 领域，以操作系统而为人所知的Unix，是 1969 年 AT&T 公司在美国新泽西所开发的(目前它的商标权由国际开放标准组织所拥有)。大多数的操作 ...

Unix is a trademarked name used for marketing purposes. Beyond that there are just the obvious technical differences. There is no need or push for linux to become a "true" unix since that is just a ...

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 ...

MacOS and Windows are the two most popular desktop and laptop operating systems. They’re the two central OS choices dominating the desktop and laptop markets today. But have you heard of the ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

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 ...

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 ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.