Even if you’re not a long-time Linux user, the terminal is still great as a way to quickly jump around your system settings ...

Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Looking around at lesser-known operating systems, you've likely come across something called BSD, or FreeBSD. Both Linux and BSD are open source, Unix-like operating systems, but they're different.

Like Mac (Soft AT, Soft PC, Silhouette etc), Acorn, or those exotic Japanese systems (X68k, FM Towns).. There were many Apple II and C64 emulators being written then. MSX ones, too.

Two critical vulnerabilities in Sudo command-line tool allow privilege escalation for local attackers on Linux systems ...

I know this.”, the Unix operating system (trademarked as UNIX) originated at Bell Labs where it initially was only intended for internal use to make writing and running code for systems like the ...

But it pays to know these Unix basics considering there is often a Unix/Unix-like OS somewhere in the abstraction hierarchy. If that layer is unsound, the whole edifice risks collapse. To that end, I ...

Security alert! Two critical sudo vulnerabilities have been discovered, allowing attackers to gain root access to your Linux ...

Two core Unix-like utilities, ... As detailed at Prossimo, a joint team from Ferrous Systems and Tweede Golf, with support from Amazon Web Services, is reimplementing sudo and su.