Marc Rochkind's Advanced Unix Programming was written in 1984 and published in 1985 - by Prentice Hall, the same company subbing for Sun Microsystems Press on today's McDougall and Mauro Solaris ...

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is highly regarded as solid reference on the UNIX environment. InfoQ speaks with coauthor Stephen Rago about this latest edition.

Written in the C programming language, Unix offered a tight array of efficient "tools" or applications, whose text streams could be "piped" from one program to another.

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 Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, security analysts and the company selling the software ...

The crazy origin story of the C programming language, and how it became a success with the help of some incredibly slow computers.

We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...

Of course, Apple computers have always been great machines to learn to program on. But most developers would still be in either a pure Unix/Linux environment or – more likely – Microsoft Windows.