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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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