Unix

System administration, shell programming and scripting, hardware and software issues.

Solaris, Linux, Vmware, Redhat Linux and veritas volume manager/cluster tutorials. Also shares a real time production issue on those products and sharing the solutions. Free e-books.

BSD support forum, message board; covers all BSD Unix operating systems; forums, FAQ, member list, registration, calendar, new posts, journal, search, link database.

A virtual command line interface that works in browser and looks similar to FreeBSD 7.x.

A BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind.

Discussion board related to IRIX and other Unix software.

Overview article on the system and its history.

An open-source UNIX-like operating system with GUI and network support. Developed at the University of Illinois.

Annotated source code examples for most Unix system and library calls. Plus working source code examples of some classic algorithms.

Former Caldera Systems is center of UnitedLinux consortium, but normal Unix customers, small-mid size businesses, are its main income. Heavy turnover in SCO sales organization makes it hard to get firm's attention. [Baseline]

How to secure your Unix computer system (emphasis on HP-UX).

An emulator of OpenVMS's Digital Command Language for Windows and UNIX

A highly programmable shell inspired by the rc shell and scheme. Mailing list archives and source code.

A series of answers to specific technical questions, in no particular order.

IBM pSeries and System p specialists. AIX, TSM, HACMP and Tivoli experts.

Administration notes for AIX, Linux and Solaris. Various UNIX utilities and shell scripts.

The mascot of the Darwin OS.

A Unix distribution which focuses on the porting of free software to Darwin and Mac OS X.

Encyclopedia article about the Unix-like operating system, including history and future directions.

Concise, with links, forum comments. [OSNews.com]

Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

Why he uses NetBSD, advantages and disadvantages of the OS vs. other OS's, and a number of useful how-to's on NetBSD.

Details of OpenBSD powering a high profile site.

An interactive webpage to explore crontab timing expressions in safety.

Strong cryptographic software, libraries, and information about cryptography, data security, and privacy.

Run selected commands as root, with the users' own password. Allows the administrator to grant limited root privileges to a subset of users, without giving out the root password.

Independently evaluates and certifies the level of trust that may be placed in IT security features.

A portable password cracker with built-in efficient implementations of multiple password hashing algorithms found on various Unix flavors.

Lists vulnerabilities, white papers and utilities.

A tool for file integrity checking that optionally can be used as a client/server application for centralized monitoring of networked hosts.

History and overview of the BAsh shell.

A guide for using ZSH. Including the original source and LaTeX and printable PDF version.

User interface development environment for C++ and is portable across X11 on all kinds of Unix. Create graphical, interactive user interfaces.

Articles and related links for Solaris and Unix administrators including solaris forum for problem discussion.

PatchReport or PatchReport for 2.7 is a Perl script to assist in the automation of Solaris patch installation.

A webpage at UnixGuide.net about Tru64 UNIX.

Open Source software for Tru64 UNIX.

A guide which explains in detail, how to make a small installation of FreeBSD on your system, by yourself.

This document describes the steps I took to connect my FreeBSD 3.4R machine to Telstra's Bigpond ADSL Network.

The worldwide list of FreeBSD user groups maintained at FreeBSD.org.

Device drivers providing a uniform audio API across all the major UNIX architectures, including OpenBSD.

Develop products that provide an integrated, intrusion detection system.

OpenBSD geek extraordinaire.

OpenBSD hacker, founder of Superblock, LLC and creator of lobste.rs.

OpenBSD developer and sudo maintainer.

Next move in legal battle with IBM will likely come Monday, SCO says, possibly in form of request that a judge halt IBM AIX Unix sales. IBM says it did nothing wrong, and is unlikely to yield to SCO demands. [CNET News.com]

SCO says it has revoked IBM license to sell its version of Unix, AIX, and requests judge permanently block IBM Unix business. Amended suit also criticizes practices of Linux founder, leader, Linus Torvalds. [CNET News.com]

Brief article, many forum comments, on distributed denial of service attack on SCO. [Slashdot]

Licensing rights to Unix technology from SCO lends heavyweight backing to SCO intellectual property claims and helps Microsoft fight Linux, a growing market threat to Windows, analysts say. [CNET News.com]

Strong buy recommendation from Renaissance Ventures, LLC. Suggests in part why SCO stock has risen during the lawsuit period. [Renaissance Research Group]