摘要：程序员都知道，Linux 不是 Unix，不过二者之间确实存在关系，即 Linux 系统是从 Unix 派生出来的，而 Linux是一个类 Unix 的操作系统。那么，二者之间具体存在哪些明显的差异呢？ 网上很多有关POSIX和Unix工具的教程和指南总是假设你安装了Linux，或者更具体地 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.

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 ...