On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

Sun Microsystems has begun releasing an update for Solaris 8, its version of the Unix operating system, that can dish out Web pages faster and is easier to manage, the company said. Solaris 8 update ...

Experts at SophosLabs have warned of an internet worm that is exploiting a recently announced vulnerability on Sun Solaris servers. The Unix/Froot-A worm (also known as Wanuk) exploits a vulnerability ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.

Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system in nearly a decade Wednesday. By all accounts it was a classy event, held at Gotham Hall in New York. We can't tell you much about ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is considering a port of its Solaris version of the Unix operating system to two new processor architectures designed by chip rivals IBM and Intel Corp., a company executive said ...

Oracle has released a beta version of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future? Oracle said the new operating system has been built as a modern cloud platform to ...

I’m jealous. Matt Lake’s written a great tale, Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind, that I wish I’d written. Well, just because he got there first doesn’t mean I can’t ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

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 ...

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 ...