It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

NetBSD is a real Unix that can run almost anywhere. Can it run as a desktop?

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

For decades, Coreutils have been part of the standard repertoire for Linux administrators and developers. Those who wanted to use these tools on Windows with largely identical behavior previously ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, a set of UNIX-style command-line utilities. Installing Coreutils for Windows allows you to use commands such as grep in Command Prompt (CMD) and ...

virtual Error open_internal(const String &p_path, int p_mode_flags) override; ///< open a file virtual bool is_open() const override; ///< true when file is open ...

Abstract: We defeat two proposed Unix file-system race condition defense mechanisms. First, we attack the probabilistic defense mechanism of Tsafrir, et al., published at USENIX FAST 2008. We then ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month. There's a video of the ...