This is an introduction to the Unix command line and some of the most important Unix tools a developer needs to know. In addition to the specific command line tools covered, we will also have a crash ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...

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UNIX is the greatest operating system family ever invented you have probably never heard about whose genius design ideas now enable everything great you love. "Unix philosophy" is a core set of ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Eric S. Raymond is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the open-source movement. In 1997, Eric published a technical paper called "The ...

Why do coders and developers prefer Mac OS X? Travel back in time 15 years and the idea that Apple would make the best operating system for developers would have sounded faintly ridiculous. Before OS ...

Dennis Ritchie, a computer czar who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. Ritchie, 70, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley ...

Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming who created the popular C programming language and helped create the Unix operating software, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.