Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference. The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started ...

摘要：程序员都知道，Linux 不是 Unix，不过二者之间确实存在关系，即 Linux 系统是从 Unix 派生出来的，而 Linux是一个类 Unix 的操作系统。那么，二者之间具体存在哪些明显的差异呢？ 网上很多有关POSIX和Unix工具的教程和指南总是假设你安装了Linux，或者更具体地 ...

十五个发行版，零个 systemd。 上个月我统计时，这个数字让我吃了一惊。到 2026 年，仍有十五个活跃维护的 Linux 发行版默认不搭载 systemd。经过十多年关于替代品会消亡的预测，它们依然存在。 当你启动一台 Linux ...

今年已 80 岁的 Ken Thompson 是 Unix、C 语言、Go 语言等一系列重要项目的共同创造者。他在最近的一次演讲中，回答了一个问题 “如今使用什么操作系统？”他说，“在我生命中的大部分时间里都在运行苹果操作系统。”但最近五年他开始对苹果不太满意了，而 ...

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 ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...