Ritchie and Thompson’s July 1974 CACM article, “The UNIX Time-Sharing System,” took the IT world by storm. Until then, Unix had been confined to a handful of users at Bell Labs.

According to Yankee Group, 81% of corporations converting their legacy UNIX networks to the newer Linux environment will not retrain or recertify their internal IT administrators on the newer ...

FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux.

With Linux 2.4.x and the 2.5.x development kernel, Linux now scales to 32 and 64 processors through the addition of advanced Symmetrical Multi-Processing capabilities taken from Unix System V and ...

In a potential boon to proprietary software companies, the owner of the Unix operating system filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM Corp. for allegedly giving away trade secrets in its open ...

The motion further claims that any interpretation that would grant SCO derivative rights is negated by recent actions by Novell--which bought Unix from AT&T and later sold the rights to a ...

NetBSD is a compact Unix-like open source operating system. NetBSD’s origins are in version 4.3 of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) that was developed as an Unix-derivative by the ...

The product of their collaboration, called Unix System V Release 4.0, became available two years later and combined features from System V Release 3, BSD, SunOS and Microsoft Corp.’s Xenix.