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Mount Unix system into Common Lisp image. Contribute to PuellaeMagica...
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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison.
NT is often touted as a “very advanced” operating system. Why is that? What made NT better tha...
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Linux like original Unix.
This started as a Patreon bonus! My Patreon supporters get cool bonus content like videos, articles, and speci...
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GitHub - CISOfy/lynis: Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/IS...
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sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a UNIX socket.
In this post, I will detail how to replace sudo (a setuid binary) by using SSH o...
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A new Crystal blog post/announcement has been posted!
Get the full details here: A new Event Loop for UNIX operating systems - The Crys...
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Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling :: sunshowers.
An introduction to signals: a written version of my talk at RustC...
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Amiga lore is full of exciting tales. Many of them are retold to demonstrate how the incompetence of Commodore’s management destroyed a p...
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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About.
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Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1.
A pipe is a first-in-first-out interprocess communication channel. The pipe version as it is known today w...
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UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
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The shell is a command programming language that provides an interface to the UNIX† operating system. Its features include control-flow p...
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Unix as a tool forge.
Wikipedia1 cites a few different sources on what “Unix Philosophy” is. Peter Salus summarizes it as:
Write progra...
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The Unix shell is a powerful, ubiquitous, and reviled tool for managing computer systems. The shell has been largely ignored by...
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The first edition of the Unix Programmer’s Manual, dated November 3, 1971, is available here in image, Postscript, and PDF format. Return...
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Cheating at a Company Group Activity Using Unix Tools.
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How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU with our home-built C compiler.
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A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.
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Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.
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The Unix philosophy is a set of software development concepts and norms which have shaped the way modern software is built.
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