Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always “use it” or maybe as much as “use it — a lot.” But the detailed answer includes a lot of steps ...

It looks like my new job will be UNIX based. They are going to train, but I want to go in ahead of the curve. Which UNIX OS is the best to learn from on a ...

Noting that Mac OS X has “turned unsuspecting Mac users into Unix users, too,” O’Reilly announced the publication of Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson’s “Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther” on Wednesday.

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Unix’s durability and its technical culture are certainly of interest to people who already like Unix, and perhaps to historians of technology. But Unix’s original application as a general-purpose ...