This "modern" OS is based on ideas over 50 years old.

As far as I know, the Mac mini is the first Unix computer from a major manufacturer (if Apple can be called that) to be this small and cheap. This is a full multi-user operating system and reasonably ...

NEW PROVIDENCE— Dennis Ritchie was supposed to travel to Tokyo last month to receive the prestigious Japan Prize for his role in inventing the UNIX computer operating system. The earthquake and ...

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, ...

Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the ...

Warwick Ashford is chief reporter at Computer Weekly. He joined the CW team in June 2007 and is focused on IT security, business continuity, IT law and issues relating to regulation, compliance and ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Unix Insider – Rob Kolstad, long-time USENIX executive and noted industry personality, often points out that a good system administrator is a master of change on many time scales. That statement is ...

CHEYENNE -- Starting next summer, University of Wyoming students and researchers will have access to one of the world's fastest supercomputers. But first, UW's working to help them learn to speak the ...