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 ...

These powerful computers ruled technical tasks in the '80s and '90s. Can you still find one today?

Unix dominates in both research and educational computing in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. In business education, however, it isn't very visible at all. For example, I once reviewed 8 ...

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

Lawsuit, part of a long-running battle over Unix copyrights, accuses SCO of breaking a contract and improperly laying claim to assets. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

The Mac Terminal app is your window into macOS's UNIX underpinnings. Here's how to customize the appearance of Terminal in macOS. The UNIX operating system standard goes back decades. To 1970 in fact, ...

As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the Unix operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself. Apple Computer is being sued by The ...

Doing battle in the $9 billion Unix server market is not for the timid. Designing a competitive microprocessor is a costly business and, with the Unix market seemingly in permanent decline, it’s easy ...

When attackers take advantage of an exploit, one of their first goals is to gain superuser (root or administrator) access to the compromised system. If the compromised process is already running with ...