摘要：程序员都知道，Linux 不是 Unix，不过二者之间确实存在关系，即 Linux 系统是从 Unix 派生出来的，而 Linux是一个类 Unix 的操作系统。那么，二者之间具体存在哪些明显的差异呢？ 网上很多有关POSIX和Unix工具的教程和指南总是假设你安装了Linux，或者更具体地 ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...

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 old. What was ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...