Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU operating system. The announcement email from developer Samuel ...

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 ...

UNIX is still breathing. It's still widely used in enterprise data centers. It's still running huge, complex, key applications for companies that absolutely, positively need those apps to run. And ...

GNU = Gnu’s Not UNIX (meaning is doesn’t use any of the UNIX codebase). While Linux is very UNIX-like, it is not UNIX. Second, to say that Linux could not stand on its own with UNIX is false.

As the owner of the Unix trademark, The Open Group has separated the Unix trademark from any actual code stream itself, thus allowing multiple implementations. Since the introduction of the Single ...