No need to pinch yourself — it is, in fact, 2026, and there was a court hearing last June 22 about IBM allegedly using ...

IBM is still under fire from Xinuos about 2003-era bytes.

SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive because the chance to emerge as ...

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 ...

The SCO Group, arguably, isn’t making many friends in the Linux camp these days. Last month it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly misusing Unix code to bolster Linux efforts. SCO ...

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, ...

I would like to know what are the real differences between linux and unix? I've been told that linux came from unix but I'm yet to see why one is better or are they both pretty much the same thing.

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 ...

Back on September 12, fellow blogger Marc Wagner wrote a long rebuttal to my comment that the Linux community should stop trying to make Linux look like Windows and just let Linux be Linux. As part of ...