In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

Linus Torvalds was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He wanted to create an academic version of Unix OS for free. Linus began writing the code. Later his very own operating system ...

Stability, performance and adaptability are key attributes of Linux, which dominates cloud computing and supercomputing and is fundamental to IoT and containers. Now that 2024 has gotten off the ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...

Linux contains many of the same basic commands, attempts to follow the directory layout similarly, implements POSIX compliance where it makes sense, etc. But they're also very different, Linux package ...

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 ...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.