One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...

I want to use text based linux, not X. Because I know this laptop won't be able to run it very well. Any suggestions as to what Unix-based operating system I should put on here? FreeBSD 4.3? RedHat?

Mac OS X has a UNIX-based foundation, called Darwin, which evolved from a joint effort by Apple engineers and programmers in the Open Source software community. Darwin is distributed under Apple’s ...

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the rampant ...

Sun got closer to finally lifting the shades on the source code for its vaunted Solaris Unix-based operating system last week. The vendor said it would have Solaris code released to the Open Source ...

Power6's Live Partition Mobility makes it possible to move a Unix-based computer workload from one server to another while it is running IBM is introducing a new feature of its recently released ...