Introduction"Python is made of C"—this fact has become a kind of common sense for modern engineers. However, that does not ...
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...
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The 60-year-old Unix design choice that made the Linux desktop a mess
A heritage of dumb terminals and 1980s workstations still leaves Linux rooted in text tools and unconventional window ...
SCO, the anti-Linux lawsuit monster is dead. There are still twitches left in the corpse in the bankruptcy court morgue, but when even Groklaw retires from the field, you know SCO’s as dead as a ...
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These 50-year-old Linux commands still beat modern alternatives
Older commands can still be faster—and more flexible, powerful, and accessible too!
If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement of discovering, in a dusty University of Utah storeroom, a tape labelled ...
A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.
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