Linux isn't a certified Unix system, and some say it definitely isn't Unix. The key question for a business is if a commercial Unix flavor is enough like Linux that you can make an easy transition ...

“It’s a Unix system! I know this!” On the minus side, SerenityOS's browser threw an exception—on the plus side, that Crash Reporter is a thing of beauty!

It’s difficult to convey in an era when a UNIX-like operating system sits in your pocket, how there was once a time when the mere word was enough to convey an aura of immense computing power.

Even if you’re not a long-time Linux user, the terminal is still great as a way to quickly jump around your system settings ...

Once immortalized on the silver screen with the enthusiastically spoken words “It’s a UNIX system. I know this.”, the Unix operating system (trademarked as UNIX) originated at Bell Labs ...

It’s impossible to know exactly what the original developers of Unix were thinking when they laid out the first file systems and the use of these file systems has evolved over time.

Despite Unix's decline, its concepts live on in modern tech like Linux servers and smartphone operating systems. In the '80s, Unix was making its way out of the research labs and universities and ...

While you’re unlikely to see many Unix systems with fragmentation reaching higher than 5%, it’s good to know what you can do to defragment a file system if and when you run into this situation.

Security experts have uncovered a new class of vulnerabilities in Unix and Linux systems that let attackers take full control of computers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...