This is a book about Unix programming, but in it we’re going to toss around the words “culture,” “art,” and “philosophy” a lot. If you are not a programmer, or you are a programmer who has had little ...

A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering accuracy in the Unix shell. The Unix shell is a 50-year-old programming environment that is still ...

The University Research Computing Facility (URCF) is pleased to announce our Summer 2025 workshop series. The URCF provides support for computational research at Drexel. These workshops are open to ...

Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest.

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. Unix co-developer Ken Thompson worked at Bell Labs ...

A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Bash, present in almost all Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X deployments, has been discovered. Experts advise immediate patching. A critical vulnerability in ...