Unix's virtual memory capabilities allow the operating system to use part of a computer's storage space as working memory, temporarily increasing available system resources and allowing large ...

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 ...

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.

Ubuntu is also the name of -- and philosophy behind -- the most popular desktop variant of the Linux operating system. Linux was originally developed by a Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds and ...

With reference to the query from your correspondent Enid Woods (September 17, who queried the answer to a Telegraph crossword clue) I am sending a small quotation from the on-line encyclopedia ...

Their goal was to write a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system (OS) and in August 1969, a programmer at AT&T Bell Laboratories started work on the first ever version of Unix.

The additional storage and memory from the Disk System add-on pushed its potential further, which a modder has demonstrated by porting a Unix-like operating system to the console.

Microsoft Windows is still the most important product for businesses, but Linux, Mac OS and Unix offer important alternatives, along with device-specific OS such as Android and Chrome.