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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Franklin has been covering tech and cybersecurity for over 5 years. His work has appeared on TechRepublic, The Register, TechInformed, Computing, ServerWatch, and Moonlock, among others. Linux is an ...

Most consumers can, with a little effort, name two desktop and laptop operating systems: Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS. Few have ever considered any of the open-source alternatives found under ...

An operating system initially developed in the 1960s at Bell Labs. Its developers wrote it in C programming language along with assembly language. The creators of Unix originally intended the ...

UNIX/LinuxはOSブート時、 init と呼ばれるプロセスを起動し、「1」をプロセスの識別番号であるPIDとしてinitに割り当てるとSharda氏。initは制御端末を持たないデーモンで、すべてのプロセスはinitによって起動される 子プロセス となります。Linuxで「pstree」コマンドを実行すると、initがすべての ...

An operating system's kernel manages resources, handles system calls, governs hardware access, and controls processes. The ...