Linux, a clone of UNIX operating systems, is free to download, but users still pay for service and support. Maybe there is such a thing as a free lunch — when it comes to computer programs, at least.

First launched in 2018, the open-source SerenityOS offers its users a stripped-back GUI-based operating system that melds a 1990s desktop aesthetic with a focus on productivity for power users. It isn ...

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a viable ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

The US Government has reported that fewer vulnerabilities were found in Windows than in Linux/Unix operating systems in 2005. Linux/Unix-based operating systems — a set that includes Mac OS X, as well ...

update SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more than $1 billion. Analysts say the move is a desperate one.

Using Ubuntu Linux to import and edit photos from a digital camera. By J. D. Biersdorfer Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology ...

WTF?! Nintendo positioned the Famicom to feel more like a computer than its Western counterpart – the NES – hence the name Family Computer. The additional storage and memory from the Disk System ...

The US government has reported that fewer vulnerabilities were found in Windows than in Linux/Unix operating systems in 2005. Linux/Unix-based operating systems -- a set that includes Mac OS X, as ...