Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference. The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started ...

If you're thinking about programming or just learning to code, you might notice that developers tend to favor Linux. Why is that? Here are the reasons you should care about Linux's hold over ...

If you’ve just started reading and learning about Linux, you might have encountered the term “Unix”. The word itself looks similar to Linux, but what does it mean? Perhaps you’re wondering: what is ...

Simply defined, Unix is an open source operating system that is mainly used for running PCs, internet servers and workstation. It was developed in the 1970s at AT&T Bell Labs and was written in C ...

UNIX is a powerful multi-user operating system (OS) that defined how we do computing for more than 40 years. It provided a lot of features and abstractions that we take for granted today. This ...

むかし、むかしのお話です。 ある所に「Multics（マルチックス）」という凄いOSを作ろうという計画がありました。 しかしそのOSは複雑すぎて完成することはありませんでした。 開発者の一人だったケン・トンプソンはスペース・トラベルというゲームを ...

You may have often heard about both Unix and Linux operating systems. In today’s world, Linux is more famous than Unix but Unix has its own users. While Linux is an open source, free to use operating ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...