While UNIX laid the groundwork for modern operating systems, Linux harnessed the potential of open-source philosophy to democratize software development. As we navigate an increasingly complex digital ...

Security experts have uncovered a new class of vulnerabilities in Unix and Linux systems that let attackers take full control of computers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

One result is GNU/Linux (that is, Linux with GNU utilities). At one point, that was called Lignux, of all things. Yikes. Since nowadays GNU without Linux isn't hugely helpful, it's basically just been ...

My contention in this thread is that the user experience philosophy that underlies Linux/UNIX (the "Unix Philosophy") is close to the mirror image of the Apple design philosophy (I'll call it the ...