Most consumers can, with a little effort, name two desktop and laptop operating systems: Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS. Few have ever considered any of the open-source alternatives found under ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

OPERATING SYSTEM VENDORS talk a good game in terms of interoperability, but their objective is to get you off competitors’ software and onto theirs. As such, transparent interoperability is not a high ...

Likewise Software has released a new version of its open-source authentication software for allowing Linux, Apple Macintosh and commercial Unix-based computers to hook into Microsoft Active Directory ...

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Novell is taking The SCO Group to task over the latter’s legal claims over Unix and against Linux software. Novell is taking The SCO Group to task over the latter’s legal claims over Unix and against ...

Bill Thompson has been using Unix for a quarter-century - and doesn't plan to stop now. In the autumn of 1984, I completed the Diploma in Computer Science at Cambridge University and started looking ...

The Free Software Foundation celebrated "the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement," with an announcement calling it "a turning point in the history ...

IT pundit Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says it was not Microsoft’s evil business deals of the 1990s that killed off Unix but the Unix companies themselves. Vaughan-Nichols said that as important as its ...