It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

WinFsp enables developers to write their own file systems (i.e. "Windows drives") as user mode programs and without any knowledge of Windows kernel programming. It is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in ...

Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. This may put off some users, since there is no flashy UI, but for those who want unparalleled ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month. There's a video of the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The git add command is used by developers to specify which files should be included in the next ...