If you’ve just started reading and learning about Linux, you might have encountered the term “Unix”. The word itself looks similar to Linux, but what does it mean? Perhaps you’re wondering: what is ...

You may have often heard about both Unix and Linux operating systems. In today’s world, Linux is more famous than Unix but Unix has its own users. While Linux is an open source, free to use operating ...

Linux and UNIX are very similar to each other, but they have some common differences – discover what they are in this blog to find out which one is right for your organisation. The history of the UNIX ...

This part of the course will show you how to access and use the supercomputer Saga and how to use UNIX (and Linux) commands. PDF from the lecture can be found in the Lectures folder as well as on ...

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 ...

The SCO Group, arguably, isn’t making many friends in the Linux camp these days. In March it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly misusing Unix code to bolster Linux efforts. SCO owns ...

In Linux and Unix-like operating systems, timestamps are often used to represent dates and times in a machine-readable format. However, for human users, these timestamps can be difficult to interpret.