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 ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

The biggest challenges for Linux going forward include addressing next gen scalability and networking requirements. Yet there are other social issues facing the Linux kernel community that outweigh ...

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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 ...

Of course, in the real world, at least for now, most people are coming from Windows. Which means you can have distros that ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux ...

The kernel has come a long way since Linus branched off 2.4.15 to create 2.5.0 back on November 22, 2001. Since then, rapid development has ensued, resulting in a drastically different and ...

It seems like Google is working hard to update and upstream the Linux kernel that sits at the heart of every Android phone. The company was a big participant in this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference, ...

While the dmesg command can display the entire contents of the Linux kernel message buffer there are ways to have it choose just what you want to see. The dmesg command displays the content of the ...