Unix Stories

OpenBSD 7.5 Released 62
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released 37
Remembering How Plan 9 Evolved at Bell Labs 36
Remembering Unix Desktops - and What We Can Learn From Them 155
Should New Jersey's Old Bell Labs Become a 'Museum of the Internet'? 54
Wine 9.0 Released 15
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
Six Years Later, HPE and Oracle Quietly Shut Door On Solaris Lawsuit 10
OSnews Decries 'The Mass Extinction of Unix Workstations' 284
OpenBSD 7.2 Released 21
Unix Legend Adding Unicode Support To AWK - Once He Figures Out Git 103
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware 41
OpenBSD 7.1 Released with Support for Apple M1, Improvements for ARM64 and RISC-V 26
Solaris 11.4 Free For Open-Source Devs, Non-Production Use 51
Some Videogames Suddenly 'Expiring' on Classic PS3, Vita Consoles 70
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 56
FreeBSD 13 Released 66
UNIX's Founders Created Another OS at Bell Labs: 'Plan 9' 135
FreeBSD's Close Call: How Flawed Code Almost Made It Into the Kernel 60
Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix? 280
FreeBSD and Its Code of Conduct Anniversary 91
KDE Plasma 5.19 Released 18
OpenBSD 6.7 Released 49
Serious Flaw That Lurked In Sudo For 9 Years Hands Over Root Privileges 96
Project Trident Ditches BSD For Linux 97
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
Bell Labs Plans Big 50th Anniversary Event For Unix 44
Computer Historians Crack Passwords of Unix's Early Pioneers 60
GNOME 3.34 Released 28
Some Original Berkeley Unix Pioneers Still Work On The FreeBSD Project 35
Can Swap Space Solve System Performance Issues? 201
Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Developer Charles Simonyi 104
FreeBSD 12 Released 132
OpenBSD 6.4 Released 121
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released 41
Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better 328
Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings 291
Mosaic, the First HTML Browser That Could Display Images Alongside Text, Turns 25 132
Wine 3.0 Released 153
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms 181
Security Upgraded For NetBSD-amd64 with Kernel ASLR Support 49
OpenBSD 6.2 Released 114
48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected 94
OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot 162
ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 79
NetBSD 7.1 Released 45
NetBSD Project Releases NetBSD 7.0.2 22
KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! 127
After 22 Years, 386BSD Gets An Update 83
Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro 130
OpenBSD 6.0 Released 94
Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon 181
Badlock Vulnerability Falls Flat Against Hype 21
13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal 233
Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 492
Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong 273
Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL 354
Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings 219
BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released 64
SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead 172
PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel 169
SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over 231
Epoch Time Bug Causes Facebook To Congratulate Users On 46 Years of Friendship 108
New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins 242
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released 129
Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 158
NetBSD 7.0 Released 58
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
30 Years a Sysadmin 162
HardenedBSD Completes Strong ASLR Implementation 66
Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? 469
GNU Hurd 0.6 Released 229
OpenBSD's Kernel Gets W^X Treatment On Amd64 84
OpenBSD Releases a Portable Version of OpenNTPD 79
Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 172
FreeBSD 10.1 Released 123
Dangerous Vulnerability Fixed In Wget 58
How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor 296
Apple Releases CUPS 2.0 178
Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild 318
Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash 399
GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD 314
New Mayhem Malware Targets Linux and UNIX-Like Servers 168
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University 136
Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix 215
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out 166
Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods 209
Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet 180
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins 136
Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age 224
Malware Attack Infected 25,000 Linux/UNIX Servers 220
BSD Real-Time Operating System NuttX Makes Its 100th Release: NuttX 6.33 64
Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers 142
If UNIX Were a Religion 392
How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? 606
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security 280
DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling 48
Yearly FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Campaign Is On 83
OpenBSD 5.4 Released 102
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then 51
The Steady Decline of Unix 570
FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems 248
Unix Guru Evi Nemeth Missing, Feared Lost At Sea 156
PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD 457
Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD 220
SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened 104
FreeBSD 8.4 Released 80
NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped 105
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? 429
OpenBSD 5.3 Released 109
Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime 409
Minix 3.2.1 Released 107
The State of BSD At the Start of 2013 91
You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows 492
New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD 149
FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% 245
FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key 86
FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM 360
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? 193
OpenBSD 5.2 Released 141
ACM Queue Interviews Robert Watson On Open Source Hardware and Research 37
NetBSD 6.0 Has Shipped 124
Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) 53
Oracle's Sparc T5 Chip Evidently Pushed Back to 2013 98
X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old 285
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? 454
CDE Open Sourced 263
John the Ripper Cracks Slow Hashes On GPU 61
Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? 818
X11 7.7 Released, Brings Multi-Touch Input 128
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Tech Job With Skills But No Formal Degree? 266
MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe 212
Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux 137
FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC 711
Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo 158
Mutt Fork Adds Features From Notmuch 93
Getting the Most Out of SSH 284
Wine 1.4 Released 168
MINIX 3.2 Released With Some Major Changes 120
DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released 102
Internet Systems Consortium Seeks Wider Input For BIND 10 60
Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools 276
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix 293
Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing 480
Solaris 11 Released 224
In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop 487
Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem 803
OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World 185
Dennis Ritchie Day 301
Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away 725
PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills 162
SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? 226
The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake 594
OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release 112
Early UNIX Contributor Robert Morris Dead at 78 90
PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo 153
Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine 317
Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? 427
OpenBSD 4.9 Released 137
Novell Sale Delayed Due To Patent Investigation 31
SCO Found No Source Code In 2004 154
The Decline and Fall of System Administration 500
Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers 705
Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin 592
UnXis Group To Acquire SCO 131
Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through 159
Inventors of Unix Win Japan Prize 105
Today Is EPOCH Day 15000 81
Xfce 4.8 Released 193
Attachmate To Retain Novell Unix Copyrights 77
Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix 289
Taco Bell Programming 394
Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises 237
Looking Back At OS X's Origins 312
SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block 217
New Sandbox Framework For Chromium Released 109
Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris 161
Wine 1.2 Released 427
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux 578
Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial 168
SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright 286
Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts 411
Ubuntu on a Dime 531
GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line 276
XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface 288
Gnome 2.30 Released 138
Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer 392
Novell Wins vs. SCO 380
SCO v. Novell Goes To the Jury 67
Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System 325
Raise a Glass — Time(2) Turns 40 Tonight 114
Cygwin 1.7 Released 203
Serious Remote FreeBSD Exploit Posted, Patched 7
Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened 172
Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges 502
Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools 200
Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior 657
40 Years of Multics, 1969-2009 138
Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd" 184
OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users 303
Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy 318
Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision 330
SCO Sells Its UNIX Product Line To London Firm 95
Saving Unix Heritage, One Kernel At a Time 169
Unix Turns 40 254
Maddog's New Hampshire "Unix" Plate Turns 20 212
PC-BSD 7.1 Released With Integrated Software Manager 81
IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT 291
Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh 232
Beginning Portable Shell Scripting 186
February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 376
Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397
Midnight Commander Development Revived 304
SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation 290
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released, Reviewed 87
FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64
Benchmarks For Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD 131
Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu 248
Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 265
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle 423
AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot 366
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop? 223
(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? 702
Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Benchmarks 328
(Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? 2362
Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris 38
NYT Ponders the Future of Solaris In a Linux/Windows World 340
OpenSolaris From a Linux Admin and User Perspective 370
33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD 162
Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? 288
Darl McBride Takes the Stand In Novell v. SCO 138
MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems 246
SCO v. Novell Goes to Trial Today In Utah 134
OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC 50
Choosing a Unix System Administration Textbook? 57
SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing 411
Linux And Unix Devices Popular On Amazon's 'Best of '07' List 106
A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones 84
MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX 276
DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix 313
What's New in OpenBSD 4.2? 203
Investment Firm Bids to Buy SCOs UNIX Operations 177
Nominate SysAdmin of the Year By Oct. 12 76
System Admin's Unit of Production? 556
Sys Admin Magazine Ceases Publication 134
Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets 368
SCO Loses 643

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