在计算机时代，相当一部分的人错误地认为 Unix 和 Linux 操作系统是一样的。然而，事实恰好相反。让我们仔细看看。 在 IT 领域，以操作系统而为人所知的Unix，是 1969 年 AT&T 公司在美国新泽西所开发的(目前它的商标权由国际开放标准组织所拥有)。大多数的操作 ...

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 ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

MacOS and Windows are the two most popular desktop and laptop operating systems. They’re the two central OS choices dominating the desktop and laptop markets today. But have you heard of the ...

Back on September 12, fellow blogger Marc Wagner wrote a long rebuttal to my comment that the Linux community should stop trying to make Linux look like Windows and just let Linux be Linux. As part of ...

An operating system initially developed in the 1960s at Bell Labs. Its developers wrote it in C programming language along with assembly language. The creators of Unix originally intended the ...

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 ...

BSD is descended from Unix, while Linux was written as a lookalike of Unix. BSD and Linux use different kernels and package ...

The US Government has reported that fewer vulnerabilities were found in Windows than in Linux/Unix operating systems in 2005. Linux/Unix-based operating systems — a set that includes Mac OS X, as well ...

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...