One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

ZDNET's key takeaways FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet.FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux.You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I don't give ...

For me, the term interoperability means how to bend 106-plus UNIX-type operating systems to work with Microsoft's proprietary, non-RFC-compliant, all-too-often frustrating systems. All the UNIX-type ...

In the 1990s and well into the 2000s, if you had mission-critical applications that required zero downtime, resiliency, failover and high performance, but didn’t want a mainframe, Unix was your go-to ...

During a brief press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Sun CEO Scott McNealy--megarivals whose companies have battled fiercely in the operating system market for more than 20 years--pledged ...