Traditionally, this role was fulfilled by SysVinit, the standard init system derived from the UNIX System V operating system. However, the evolving complexity and needs of modern computing systems ...

SCO hopes to protect Unix System V customers by having another company manage the software Even as it continues to battle for Unix ownership in court, the SCO Group plans to auction off most all ...

The product of their collaboration, called Unix System V Release 4.0, became available two years later and combined features from System V Release 3, BSD, SunOS and Microsoft Corp.’s Xenix.

The SCO Group lawsuit against IBM for copyright infringement of the UNIX System V source code is not going away. In fact, it gets more interesting with each passing week.

Long before Linux was introduced, I worked as a Unix system administrator. In those days, I downloaded the source code, unpacked the tarball archive it arrived in, compiled it, and installed it ...

Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, explains that his organization owns the Unix trademark and that the SCO Group holds the rights only to the OS source code.

Novell purchased rights to the Unix System V code for $150 million from AT&T Corp. in 1992, but later sold the Unix rights, which were eventually acquired by SCO.

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

SCO Group on Wednesday said it terminated a second IBM Unix System V license, the one that covers the discontinued Dynix/ptx operating system IBM obtained through its acquisition of Sequent ...

Unix was created 40 years ago this summer. Computerworld looks back on what some have said is one of the most important pieces of software ever created.