On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

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 ...

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems ...

An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...