Back on September 12, fellow blogger Marc Wagner wrote a long rebuttal to my comment that the Linux community should stop trying to make Linux look like Windows and just let Linux be Linux. As part of ...

IBM used its long-awaited Regatta Unix server launch to trumpet its claim to the best price-performance high-end Unix server, and score points against Sun and Hewlett-Packard. As well as the ...

Does anyone have experience migrating workload from AIX to Linux on Power? If so, can you share your thoughts on overall the throughput & performance of your workload before and after the move? We ...

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 ...

Penguin-power suffocates AIX as it sleeps. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is pouring more money into Linux. This time, it’s to get people to use Linux on its POWER servers. But that doesn’t mean IBM is killing AIX.

Qantas Airways next month plans to shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM Unix variant AIX. "(We're shifting to the IBM AIX environment) to address some ...

I would like to know what are the real differences between linux and unix? I've been told that linux came from unix but I'm yet to see why one is better or are they both pretty much the same thing.