Proprietary operating systems such as Unix and Windows, in contrast, typically cost customers millions of dollars to license. This is the latest move by SCO to wrestle royalties from Linux.

In a story first picked up by, then subsequently followed up on by Engadget, the site has highlighted the fact that the next ...

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.

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat ...

Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam online store. The company has added a ...

Of all the companies, they are very clear in terms of licensing. They paid more than $100 million [in royalties]. They're not interested in destroying Unix. IBM was unique in their push back.

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.

A standard Unix programming interface from The Open Group, which governs compliance. Formerly known as Spec 1170, and containing more than 1,100 API calls, products branded with the UNIX 95 ...

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including how to login to CSIL Linux systems plus many links to tutorials and other resources. The basics of using Linux/UNIX systems in CSIL This section relates to questions about basic usage of the ...

The Utah Office of Professional Licensure Review will be pushing for lower barriers to entry, and an increased focus on ...