The Linux seller changes the terms of its planned acquisition of Santa Cruz Operation's Unix products, adding more software to the deal. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

When attackers take advantage of an exploit, one of their first goals is to gain superuser (root or administrator) access to the compromised system. If the compromised process is already running with ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and ...

Ambisphere Publications proudly announces that “Unix Systems Blueprint: Strategies for Modern Infrastructure Mastery”, authored by Sambasiva Rao Madamanchi and published during 2024–2025, created ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...

Microsoft released MS-DOS, a DOS-based operating system, in August 1981, and Windows 1.0 in November 1985. They then co-developed OS/2 with IBM as a successor to DOS, but the project ran into ...