Since Linux and Minix are too, and since they’re both modeled on the core Unix design elements from v7, it makes sense to say that they are Unix, even if they aren’t UNIX®–just like FreeBSD ...

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 ...

Documentation Is Refreshingly Honest . I find that there's a lot of "happy talk" in the documentation for proprietary and web-based software, at least when I can get it in the fir ...

Many Linux programs are the complete opposite: they require input and produce output. Often, these programs modify their input in some way, and there are plenty of them: cut, head, sort, uniq, etc.

Many Unix operating systems provide a complete Linux environment that allows Linux applications, including Apache Web Server, Oracle 9i and K Desktop Environment, to run unmodified. There is no ...

On Linux and Unix servers, however, it’s crucial to have a clear understanding of how each workload operates within the larger computing fabric. This includes how processes execute on web ...

Windows versus Linux/Unix vulnerabilities Aberdeen Group report, vol. 1, no. 35, is dated Nov. 12, 2002, and it's a brief but interesting read.

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.