It pays to know these Unix basics considering there is often a Unix/Unix-like OS somewhere in the abstraction hierarchy. If that layer is unsound, the whole edifice risks collapse.

Many users who try Linux for the first time can get confused easily as their is no readily apparent help system available to them. As Windows programs are typically graphical in nature, it is not ...

If you are doing X11, for example, you can go low-level or pick any of a number of high-level libraries. The tutorial assumes you understand C and basic Linux programming. It has two sections, really.

I'm posting this here because OS X is my main unix system, though I also use some linux stuff (synology and a ubuntu virtual machine in my mac). I've dabbled with unix off and on for more than 20 ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Ubuntu is one of the most customizable operating systems available. In order to begin to understand the various complexities of the system, you need to become familiar with the most basic commands at ...

For all UNIX systems (Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD—which is what FreeNAS uses), permissions work in generally the same way. Each file and folder has an owner and a group assigned to it, which ...