What is Linux? That's the question we're answering for PC owners wanting to break away from Windows and MacOS. We cover the past and present.

But if you want to browse the internet, stream, or use most productivity software or office suites, you’ll find a capable ...

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the ...

The /etc/inittab file controls what happens whenever a Unix system is rebooted or forced to change run levels. Let's take a look at the configuration lines that tell your system what it's supposed ...

Sure, Linux is popular, but fans of the OpenBSD operating system think they've got something better.

Although Linux doesn’t have the long legacy of development, tuning and stress-testing that Unix has seen, it is approaching and will soon equal Unix in performance, reliability and scalability ...

2038 is for Linux what Y2K was for mainframe and PC computing in 2000, but the fixes are underway to make sure all goes well when that fatal time rolls around.

Big data may be a tech buzzword of the moment, but Unix admins who need to hunt through logs to figure out what's going with their systems have been grappling with huge data sets for decades. Here ...

How Linux was born, as told by Linus Torvalds himself Linux is 24 years old today. In 1996, he told me how it all started.

Unix was created 40 years ago this summer. Computerworld looks back on what some have said is one of the most important pieces of software ever created.