Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is highly regarded as solid reference on the UNIX environment. InfoQ speaks with coauthor Stephen Rago about this latest edition.

Marc Rochkind's Advanced Unix Programming was written in 1984 and published in 1985 - by Prentice Hall, the same company subbing for Sun Microsystems Press on today's McDougall and Mauro Solaris ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, the maker of the software warns.

He developed the influential Korn shell, essentially a programming language to direct Unix operations, now available as open-source software.

All in all, Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition is a great book; it's well written, interesting and full of examples. It's a great resource for beginning and intermediate programmers who want to ...

The authors explain the essentials of UNIX programming, concentrating on communication, concurrency and multithreading techniques, and why, when and how to use them in a tutorial manner. They provide ...

Big Nerd Ranch has released “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a book by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass that was previously only available only as a student guide for the US$3,500 Big ...

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We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...