Linux isn't a certified Unix system, and some say it definitely isn't Unix. The key question for a business is if a commercial Unix flavor is enough like Linux that you can make an easy transition ...

Setting aside legal issues afflicting the word, Unix is neither a brand nor a particular product: it is a set of ideas - implemented differently by the people behind Linux, the BSDs and Solaris, ...

Linux supporters have for years touted the benefits of Linux over UNIX, yet many in enterprise IT still lean on the trusted old operating system for some of the most business-critical workloads.

Linux continues to gain market share, but not at Windows' expense. Larry Seltzer believes that despite current perceptions, Linux is actually more of a threat to its progenitor, Unix.

We UNIX folk kept hearing about this Linux thing, but honestly, the general attitude was dismissal. UNIX was massive and incredibly hard to duplicate, and a bunch of kids in a basement couldn't ...

Linux has closed much of the gap, Fichera wrote in an update in July this year. The kernel's scalability to 4,096 x86 CPUs and up to 16TB of memory puts it "well into high-end UNIX server ...

Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU operating system. The announcement email from developer Samuel ...

Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in ...