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 ...

Unix mavens love their word-play acronyms). And now we have the Apple iOS, an OS X derivative that uses bits from the same kernel. Regard Palm.

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.

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 ...

SCO is pursuing SGI because it claims that SGI has donated a “derivative work” of Unix, its XFS file system technology, to the open source operating system Linux. Much of SCO’s Linux intellectual ...

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.

SCO acquired control of Unix intellectual property from Novell, which had bought the rights in 1992 from AT&T. Last month, SCO posted a first-quarter net loss of $724,000 on revenue of $13.5 million.

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 ...