Despite its quirks, 9front is more than just a curiosity. It is a direct descendant of research at Bell Labs, where Unix ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

I've got an extremely high interest in networking and unix in general. im 17 years old and im debating on whether or not i should goto a fancy school like RIT or WPI or just goto UConn and get my ...

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the rampant ...

Unix's growth in the '80s was driven by its portability and its populararity in academia and on workstations. Business acceptance of Unix grew but faced challenges from Windows NT and conflicting ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...

Galileo International Inc., one of the four major worldwide reservation systems that handle travel industry bookings, is implementing a Unix-based fare-pricing system that will enable it to change and ...

NIS (nee YP) appears to be immortal. It’s almost 30 years old, and it is still in widespread use today. Sure, you could point to many other protocols and services in current use that are as old or ...

Long before Linux was introduced, I worked as a Unix system administrator. In those days, I downloaded the source code, unpacked the tarball archive it arrived in, compiled it, and installed it ...