Shell accounts give access to a remote system via a shell, like early internet users in the '90s. A shell account offers a ...

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

Robert Merkel has previously received Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants in the areas of software testing and reliability. A serious security flaw has been discovered in a ubiquitous ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

This week you may have heard about something called Shellshock. It’s a vulnerability in something else called Bash. Oh, and Bash is a Unix shell. And the Shellshock vulnerability may be larger than ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

The Windows command line has improved massively over the years. Microsoft's Windows Terminal updates have quietly made it incredible, but it still lags behind Linux-based shells. The good news is that ...

Who wouldn’t want to run a UNIX-like operating system on their NES or Famicom? Although there’s arguably no practical reason for doing so, [decrazyo] has cobbled together a working port of Little Unix ...