It generally takes a while before they learn the more exotic uses of this simple command -- such a creating a branching tree structure with just one mkdir. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about ...

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 ...

There's a lot of hubbub out there now about a security hole in the Unix/Linux family's sudo command. Sudo is the command, which enables normal users to run commands as if they were the root user ...

The following tutorial will compare the Linux operating system to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows vs. Linux File System. Microsoft Windows files are stored on different data drives (C: D: E:). On ...

Although SerenityOS doesn't use code from either Linux or BSD under its hood, it does borrow a couple of concepts from FreeBSD—its license (2-clause BSD), and a "ports tree" software management ...