Date: Thu, 3. September 2009 15:46:49

Forty years ago, a new operating system called Unix was created, and a new revolution in computing began. Today, Unix-based operating systems still run many of the biggest and most important computing systems in the world. In fact, the core of Unix can be found in every major operating system in use today, from Apple's Mac OS X to Linux to, yes, even Windows. If Unix itself hadn't forked into many different versions, it might very well be the dominant OS in use today. In honor of the 40th anniversary of Unix, we're taking a look at some of the many different iterations of Unix operating systems.br/ - ... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:l6gmwiTKsz0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RSS/tech/~4/-AOH87tpwLs" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 27. January 2011 08:08:14

jbrodkin writes "The inventors of Unix and the C programming language, one of whom also created the first master-level chess-playing machine, have been awarded the prestigious Japan Prize for their work in building the Unix operating system in 1969. Ken Thompson, who is now a distinguished engineer at Google, and Dennis Ritchie, who is retired, were researchers at Bell Labs four decades ago when they 'developed the Unix operating system which has significantly advanced computer software, hardware and networks over the past four decades, and facilitated the realization of the Internet,' the Japan Prize Foundation said Tuesday in awarding them the 2011 prize. The pair join previous winners such as Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. In addition to developing Unix, Thompson also played a key role in building Belle, the first chess-playing computer to achieve a master-level rating and five-time winner of the now-defunct North American Computer Chess Championship in the 1970s and 1980s. Ritchie and Thompson have also been credited with developing the C programming language, a process that occurred in conjunction with the development of Unix." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Fri, 25. September 2009 14:45:21

HP is enhancing the security and maintenance capabilities to its Unix operating system, HP-UX 11i v3. Data center administrators can now add security patches to 100 servers at a time, and HP bulked up its access security through support for Bastille technology. The upgrades come as HP looks to entice Sun customers who may be worried about the Oracle acquisition to come to HP.br/ - Hewlett-Packard is adding security and high-availability enhancements to its HP-UX 11i v3 operating system. The enhancements which also extend to HPs Serviceguard high-availability software are part of regular updates HP brings to the Unix OS every six months or so between major upgrades, which com... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SNlIc5EOtFLUMCGfsWxD_a4Hym8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SNlIc5EOtFLUMCGfsWxD_a4Hym8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SNlIc5EOtFLUMCGfsWxD_a4Hym8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SNlIc5EOtFLUMCGfsWxD_a4Hym8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:l6gmwiTKsz0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=m8iaXG039Ac:yOWY0Jto79U:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RSS/tech/~4/m8iaXG039Ac" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 28. April 2010 15:05:36

Raul654 writes "In March, the jury in the Novell/SCO case found that Novell owns the copyright to Unix. Now, SCO's lawyers have asked judge Ted Stewart to order Novell to turn over the Unix copyright to them. 'SCO contends the jury did not answer the specific issue before Stewart that involves a legal principle called "specific performance," under which a party can ask a court to order another party to fulfill an aspect of an agreement.'" Over at Groklaw, PJ is deep into a community project to annotate SCO's filing. It's for the benefit of future historians, but it makes amusing reading now.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F04%2F28%2F128205%2FSCO-Asks-Judge-To-Give-Them-the-Unix-Copyright" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=SCO+Asks+Judge+To+Give+Them+the+Unix+Copyright%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdvuZ0Z" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/28/128205/SCO-Asks-Judge-To-Give-Them-the-Unix-Copyright?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1634168amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f7QJ8r3cIb7vIZ8HCSE1qZXXyJE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f7QJ8r3cIb7vIZ8HCSE1qZXXyJE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f7QJ8r3cIb7vIZ8HCSE1qZXXyJE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f7QJ8r3cIb7vIZ8HCSE1qZXXyJE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/s2NxPz0Pox0" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 10. February 2010 03:08:32

viralMeme writes "Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bj#248;rn Olstad, 'Wersquo;ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and wersquo;ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models. With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, wersquo;ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Many of our customers run FAST ESP on Linux and UNIX today, and we recognize that our future focus on Windows means change. To ease the transition, wersquo;re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.'"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/09/1452238"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4bpWhbdiO40" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 25. November 2010 01:14:00

angry tapir writes "Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman has revealed. The confirmation, which came in a terse message posted to Novell's website, seems to rule out questions of whether Unix assets are part of some 882 patents being sold to a Microsoft-led consortium, CPTN Holdings, as part of the deal." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 22. July 2010 04:00:01

Big Blue's newest big iron platform also runs x86 and Unix systems.

Date: Mon, 8. June 2009 15:04:59

wandazulu writes "Forty years ago this summer, Ken Thompson sat down and wrote a small operating system that would eventually be called Unix. An article at ComputerWorld describes the history, present, and future of what could arguably be called the most important operating system of them all. 'Thompson and a colleague, Dennis Ritchie, had been feeling adrift since Bell Labs had withdrawn earlier in the year from a troubled project to develop a time-sharing system called Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). They had no desire to stick with any of the batch operating systems that predominated at the time, nor did they want to reinvent Multics, which they saw as grotesque and unwieldy. After batting around some ideas for a new system, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix, which the pair would continue to develop over the next several years with the help of colleagues Doug McIlroy, Joe Ossanna and Rudd Canaday.'"pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/07/1619231/Unix-Turns-40?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/06/07/1619231"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/07/1619231/Unix-Turns-40?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YITLXNtnSy_6k5TWBZ9eO-Z2wfg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YITLXNtnSy_6k5TWBZ9eO-Z2wfg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YITLXNtnSy_6k5TWBZ9eO-Z2wfg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YITLXNtnSy_6k5TWBZ9eO-Z2wfg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ztlFAk8V8nw" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 22. November 2010 22:36:51

jfruhlinger writes "Word came down this morning that when Attachmate bought Novell, certain intellectual property rights were sold to a Microsoft-led consortium as part of the deal. Since Unix is the most valuable piece of IP Novell owns, there was a certain amount of panic that suddenly Redmond is in charge of this foundational technology for Linux and a number of other open source projects. But, while MS is being cagey, Brian Proffitt doubts that Unix was part of the IP package that was sold — and believes that Linux would be safe even if it were." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 18. May 2009 15:04:55

An anonymous reader writes "Local newspaper talks to Linux International's Jon 'maddog' Hall, who lives in New Hampshire, and who since 1989 has had a 'Live Free or Die' UNIX license plate mdash; a real one, not a conference hand-out mdash; on his Jeep. From the story: 'The day he installed the UNIX plates, he went early to work at DEC's office on Spit Brook Road in Nashua, to be sure to get the parking space right next to the door used by all the Unix engineers. He watched them come in and, one after another, do a double take at seeing the real-world version of the famous fake plate. "People would race in and yell, 'Who is it? Whose plate is it?!?'" Hall said. It was his then and it is his now. After 20 years, one suspects you will have to pry it from his cold, dead fingers.'"pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/1858237amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/17/1858237"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/1858237amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b96h7IYGk1Ulv89mAfLfsFXT43g/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b96h7IYGk1Ulv89mAfLfsFXT43g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b96h7IYGk1Ulv89mAfLfsFXT43g/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b96h7IYGk1Ulv89mAfLfsFXT43g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/QCgiLPIeExY" height="1" width="1"/