The authors take a practical approach and use short code snippets to illustrate how to use system calls. I highly recommend adding this book to your UNIX library if you want to learn UNIX system ...

Unlike the TELNET sign-on process, the UNIX spawner program allows sign ons to a UNIX system without scripts. In most cases, you should run the UNIX spawner using the root privilege in order to start ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...

Unix, of course, went the other way right from the beginning - As Dennis Ritchie put it: "What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around ...