As the first original fork of the first complete and open source Unix operating system (386BSD ... mention that they are running FreeBSD, unlike Linux, so one might wonder whether there is ...

This presented business risk and a potential to cause forking of the Linux kernel and history repeating itself with the Unix Wars yet again. Over the past week, news came out that Linus Torvalds ...

Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round Comment Linux distro wars are nothing new. "Advocacy" (a euphemism ...

UNIX, often regarded as more secure due to its controlled environment and vendor accountability, has a history of reliability in critical systems. Linux, with its open-source development model, ...

Instead, many of the Linux distributors have learned their Unix history lessons. Theyve realized that it takes more than open-source; it takes open-standards to make a successful open operating ...

Vaughan-Nichols thinks that Linux sellers and developers have learned their Unix history lessons. They’ve realised that it takes more than open source; it takes open standards and consensus to ...

HP's version of Unix, HP-UX, is still actively developed, but HP is moving it to Itanium as the company phases out its own PA-RISC chips. Meanwhile, Linux, an open-source alternative that closely ...

Anyone who was surprised by this week's court decision (Another nail in SCO's Linux lawsuit coffin) has not been following the history-turned-saga of UNIX all that long. AT&T unwittingly spawned ...