We discuss here some of the security hazards of the UNIX™ operating system, and we suggest ways to protect against them, in the hope that an educated community of users will lead to a level of ...

Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was originally developed in 1969 as a lighter ...

Abstract: This paper presents a brief history of the early development of the UNIX™ operating system. It concentrates on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea ...

If you are curious about what an unix system administrator does, this article will give you an overview of the main tasks and skills involved in this role. Unix is a family of operating systems ...

Unix is, with few exceptions like Minix or GNU Hurd, implemented as a monolithic kernel that exposes a collection of system ...

UNIX is an operating system family that originated in Bell Laboratories in the late 1960s. In its beginnings, it was small, elegant, terse, and (since the operating system itself was written in a high ...

As the UNIX operating system becomes more widely used, considerations of operating system security and data integrity become more important. Unfortunately, UNIX has deficiencies in this regard. This ...

This may sound like a plot from a sci-fi disaster film, but the “Year 2038” bug is a very real threat that could disrupt our ...

It’s difficult to convey in an era when a UNIX-like operating system sits in your pocket, how there was once a time when the mere word was enough to convey an aura of immense computing power.

This is a repository for capturing cheat sheet guidance for UNIX System Services in IBM Z. The cheat sheet is essential for anyone who hasn't worked in z/OS UNIX System Services. This not only applies ...

One of the features of z/OS that makes it versatile and powerful is the UNIX System Services (USS), which enables you to use UNIX commands, tools, and APIs on z/OS. In this article, you will learn ...