In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

The Unix operating system has been around for decades, and it and its lookalikes (mainly Linux) are a critical part of the computing world. Apple’s operating system, macOS, is Unix-based ...

Fixes are still evolving. In the meantime, a nice web page for “playing with” Unix/Linux timestamps is available at the unixtimestamp page. Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems ...

The Mac OS system currently uses a UNIX core, which would make switching from Mac OS to Linux a fairly smooth transition. Windows users, on the other hand, will need to make some adjustments. The ...

When transferring text files between Linux/Unix and Windows systems, you may encounter issues with line breaks and file formatting. This is because Windows uses both a line feed (LF) and a ...

A security warning has been issued by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University advising users of the Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD) for Unix and Linux systems that ...

security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language) but remembers enough English to write books and buy groceries.

An automated scanner has been released to help security professionals scan environments for devices vulnerable to the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2024-47176.