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?

The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

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, ...

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...

CISA warns that the nine-year-old Linux Copy Fail flaw is being actively exploited, allowing local attackers to gain root access on affected systems.

Microsoft security researchers analyze suspicious files to determine if they are threats, unwanted applications, or normal files. Submit files you think are malware or files that you believe have been ...

In the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and ...

A lot of programs are designed to only work with IP sockets, however very few of them allow to communicate via Unix domain sockets. Unix domain sockets usually are just files, so standard Unix file ...

This blog post presents an overview of the Linux/UNIX operating system architecture with a functional explanation of each layer. It concludes with a unified example showing how each layer contributes ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you work in a Unix based environment, you need a firm understanding of how chmod numbers work ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to ...