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.

There were a bunch of operating systems that were Unix-like in the eighties. Microware OS-9 never tried to be Ubix, but had aspects of it. Otyers seemed more vague, ...

Linux came about in the mid-1990s, when then-student Linus Torvalds was tasked with creating a disk driver so he could read the Minix file system. (Minix is a POSIX-compliant, UNIX-like operating ...

It’s almost our least favorite day of the year — Tax Day! And with a good portion of us e-filing and some of us even expecting a refund, maybe it’s a good time to review how what we do as ...

Granted, your mom wasn’t likely a Unix systems administrator, but she probably taught you a lot of things that have strongly influenced how you work and how you manage your Unix systems today ...

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.

A buffer overflow vulnerability caused by an integer underflow in the file_printf function in Unix-like operating systems has been patched. The flaw is contained within the file program and could ...

Wired's newly-revamped Webmonkey site has an informative guide on seeing, changing, and understanding file permissions in Unix-like systems. These are the kind of operations and syntax that can ...