Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference. The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started ...

UNIX/Linuxでよく使われる「Daemon」 (デーモン)プロセスの語源とは？ By Jakob Breivik Grimstveit HTTPサーバーとしてウェブページを提供したり、メールサーバーとして電子メールを送信したり、定期的に時刻同期を行ったりする プロセス は オペレーティングシステム では バックグラウンド プロセスと ...

Linux and UNIX are very similar to each other, but they have some common differences – discover what they are in this blog to find out which one is right for your organisation. The history of the UNIX ...

UNIX/LinuxはOSブート時、 init と呼ばれるプロセスを起動し、「1」をプロセスの識別番号であるPIDとしてinitに割り当てるとSharda氏。initは制御端末を持たないデーモンで、すべてのプロセスはinitによって起動される 子プロセス となります。Linuxで「pstree」コマンドを実行すると、initがすべての ...

An operating system initially developed in the 1960s at Bell Labs. Its developers wrote it in C programming language along with assembly language. The creators of Unix originally intended the ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...