The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

Researchers found the only known surviving copy of Unix Version 4 on magnetic tape, a key milestone in the evolution of ...

What would your answer be if a selection team charged with hiring a new CIO to develop and implement an organization-wide “strategic systems architecture” were to ask you what management ...

While the average Unix user is generally satisfied by the date/time stamps that he sees when using the ls -l command, it is sometimes useful to remember that there are actually several time stamps ...

An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...

As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the Unix operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself. Apple Computer is being sued by The ...

Doing battle in the $9 billion Unix server market is not for the timid. Designing a competitive microprocessor is a costly business and, with the Unix market seemingly in permanent decline, it’s easy ...