The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference. The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...

If you're thinking about programming or just learning to code, you might notice that developers tend to favor Linux. Why is that? Here are the reasons you should care about Linux's hold over ...

Recevez une sélection de conseils stratégiques et d'astuces concrètes chaque semaine dans votre boîte mail avec notre newsletter Guides pratiques. Le Virtual OS Museum vous donne un aperçu des ...

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 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 ...

Système d'exploitation multiutilisateur et multitâche mis au point en 1969 par Ken Thompson et Dennis Ritchie, au sein des laboratoires Bell, entité possédée à l'époque par AT&T et sa filiale Western ...

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum ...

Explicitement nommé "Virtual OS Museum", ce musée interactif centralise plusieurs émulateurs pour permettre de lancer ...