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 ...

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on.

Mini UNIX is a minimalist version of the operating system developed by [Heinz Lycklama] at Bell Labs four decades ago. It gives you a complete UNIX V6 system for the DEC PDP-11, but which needs ...

A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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