Many Unix operating systems provide a complete Linux environment that allows Linux applications, including Apache Web Server, Oracle 9i and K Desktop Environment, to run unmodified.

Linux is a monolithic kernel, so one failure can lead to the whole system crashing. Downsides of Unix There aren't many users of UNIX in the modern world. It is also not free, so it doesn't make sense ...

Fans of Unix and its close relative, Linux, pride themselves on the general security of their operating systems compared with Microsoft Windows, which has been plagued with security problems.

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 ...

Broughton said, however, he does not see Linux supplanting Unix. "We have not seen a replacement of Unix systems by Linux, by either Red Hat's or our own Linux," said Broughton.

Novell's OpenSUSE is one of several versions of Linux in use on corporate servers, a market where the operating system has carved out a sizeable niche. According to a May 2007 report from ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13 ...

SCO sues Big Blue over Unix, Linux SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more than $1 billion. Analysts say the move is a desperate one.

I know this.”, the Unix operating system (trademarked as UNIX) originated at Bell Labs where it initially was only intended for internal use to make writing and running code for systems like the ...