从总体来看，Unix的发展可以分为三个阶段： 第一阶段为Unix的初始发展阶段，从1969年KeThompson在AT&T贝尔实验室创造了Unix操作系统，刚开始运行在一台DECPDP-7计算机上，只在实验室内部使用并完善它，这个阶段Unix从版本1发展到了版本6。值得注意，此时的Unix是用 ...

BSDI很快就与AT&T的UNIX Systems Laboratories（USL）附属公司产生了法律纠纷，USL是AT&T注册的公司。AT&T为了拥有System V版权，以及Unix商标，为了垄断Unix，1992年，USL正式对BSDI提起诉讼，说BSD剽窃他的源码。而最终了结了好评如潮的BSD系统。 由于最后判决悬而未决，这桩 ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

1978年，对 Unix而言是革命性的一年；因为学术界的老大柏克利大学，推出了一份以第六版为基础，加上一些改进和新功能而成的 Unix。这就是著名的“1 BSD（1st Berkeley Software Distribution）”，开创了Unix的另一个分支：BSD 系列。 同时期，AT&T成立USG，将 Unix变成商业 ...

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 ...

London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit on Tuesday released a report that says Mac OS X and Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) Unix are the “world’s safest and most secure 24/7 online computing ...

Michael J. Karels was studying molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, when he first came into contact with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). The laboratory in which he worked ...

The PS4, which is scheduled to be released in November at the delightful price of $400, appears to run an operating system called Orbis OS, which is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD is a ...

As one of the original versions of Unix, BSD is an ancient operating system. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it used what are, by today’s standards, strange, even ridiculous security. For one, ...

Ever wonder about how Unix got started, not to mention all the twists and turns it took along the way? Here are some milestones of the operating system’s four-decade-long history. 1956 A U.S.

That iPad in your hand? It feels like the most modern of computers. But like the iPhone and the Macintosh, the Apple tablet revolves around a core piece of software that can trace its roots all the ...