And whether it’s Unix or its little sibling Linux, the real reason we’re so keen to keep this vetted operating system at the heart of our IT strategy is that it’s remarkably reliable – it ...

In the '80s, Unix was making its way out of the research labs and universities and into the real world. Some observers thought that Unix would seriously challenge the dominance of MS-DOS. How did ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 op… ...

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 ...

Thus, a NIS server can provide any information relevant to a networked Unix system by distributing text files to requesting systems. On a master NIS server, you define your files, or maps, and ...