Eric Raymond first announced this project back in 1999: The Art of Unix Programming was to be a new book, written with help from the community, that would "attempt to explain the Zenlike 'special ...

As an alternative method to signing on through the TELNET daemon, the UNIX spawner program allows SAS/CONNECT sessions on UNIX systems without requiring that username ...

#1 hacker?? puh-leeze.. what has ESR "hacked" lately? His beloved fetchmail was simply a fork of someone else's project. And I've read that fetchmail is notoriously buggy and no longer actively ...

This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...

Unix has its fingerprints all over Linux, and it's why it feels so different compared to Windows ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...