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 ...

BSD is descended from Unix, while Linux was written as a lookalike of Unix. BSD and Linux use different kernels and package ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A lot of new users come to Linux because they dislike aspects of Windows. That's fine, but trying to recreate the old Windows ...