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 ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

Maybe you're married to Microsoft Exchange, but you secretly pine for open-source e-mail tools like SpamAssassin or fetchmail. Or maybe you're using Unix-based applications for some network services, ...

I want to use text based linux, not X. Because I know this laptop won't be able to run it very well. Any suggestions as to what Unix-based operating system I should put on here? FreeBSD 4.3? RedHat?

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

The last time I spent much time thinking about the QNX operating system was when Lee spent a few weeks in 2011 figuring out how to root a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet running the QNX-based PlayBook OS, ...

Power6's Live Partition Mobility makes it possible to move a Unix-based computer workload from one server to another while it is running IBM is introducing a new feature of its recently released ...

At SUSECon in Berlin, SUSE, a global Linux and cloud-native software leader, announced significant enhancements across its entire Linux distribution family. These new capabilities focus on providing ...

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...

In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group Inc. announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. over SCO’s Unix ...