While UNIX laid the groundwork for modern operating systems, Linux harnessed the potential of open-source philosophy to democratize software development. As we navigate an increasingly complex digital ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...

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.

People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when ...

The /etc/inittab file controls what happens whenever a Unix system is rebooted or forced to change run levels. Let's take a look at the configuration lines that tell your system what it's supposed ...

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 ...

As late as 2007, Wall Street exchanges were still largely run on Unix, such as Hewlett-Packard’s HP-UX, IBM’s AIX, and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris.

Linux, on the other hand, has thousands of very useful programs that are run from the command line and therefore it may not be easy to find the help for that particular programs. Thankfully for us ...

Linux is 24 years old today. In 1996, he told me how it all started. ... you have device drivers—that's Unix. Linux may have existed by this point, but Linus wasn't calling it that yet.

The popular Linux and Unix shell has a serious security problem that means real trouble for many web servers. Fortunately, a patch -- as source code -- is available.