#Unix

My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1). I previously hosted it on GitHub Pages and then eventually moved to Cloudflare Pages because both options were free and easy.…

It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your…

I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.

It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today.

There is a folder at the root of Linux and Unix operating systems called /lost+found/ What is it for? Under what circumstances would I interact with it? How would I interact with it?

The following article appeared (in German) on the German UUG net andSubNet. It tells a short history of Unix in the German Democratic Republic.

Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their rapid growth in today’s businesses, Linux/UNIX administrators have also be…

From How-To Geek: Linux inherited Unix's superpower, and developers can't let it go

Before Linux, there was Unix. It was great, but it was and has been plagued by problems with licensing and proprietary competition. [Vintage Appartus] recalls, for example, the AT&T Unix PC fro…

"I love these machines," writes long-time Slashdot reader Shayde: I was super-active in the Unix-PC Usenet groups back in the 90s... We hacked the hell out of them. They were small, sexy, and... they ran Unix!…