Unix

  • SCO, open source and the world

    While a small Utah company launches a frontal assault on free software, the rest of the globe is saying: Gimme some of that!
    By Sam Williams December 22, 2003

  • Lawyers against Linux

    A software company launches a billion-dollar suit against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM -- and only succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 3, 2003

  • Public money, private code

    The drive to license academic research for profit is stifling the spread of software that could be of universal benefit.
    By Jeffrey Benner January 4, 2002

  • Open-sourcing the Apple

    A hacker reviews the beta release of Mac OS X -- and dreams of toppling Microsoft.
    By Jordan Hubbard November 17, 2000

  • Guru of the Unix gurus

    A year after his death, the programming community still treasures the influence of Rich Stevens.
    By Rachel Chalmers September 1, 2000

  • Beware of geeks bearing gifts

    By Simson Garfinkel
    By August 8, 2000

  • The unknown hackers

    Open-source pioneers Bill and Lynne Jolitz may be the most famous programmers you've never heard of.
    By Rachel Chalmers May 17, 2000

  • BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code

    How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux.
    By Andrew Leonard May 16, 2000

  • Chapter one: Boot time

    Part 2: Starting points
    By March 6, 2000

  • Code critic

    John Lions wrote the first, and perhaps only, literary criticism of Unix, sparking one of open source's first legal battles.
    By Rachel Chalmers November 30, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Apple is too strong to be Linux's lunch; DEA Museum shows only one side of drug wars; does LAPD behavior shed light on O.J. case?
    Letters to the Editor October 5, 1999

  • Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere

    Write free software -- and write it off your tax bill?
    By Salon Tech Writers December 15, 1998

  • You've got sendmail

    Eric Allman's free program makes sure your e-mail gets through. Now it's going commercial.
    By Andrew Leonard November 30, 1998

  • The little operating system that could

    Microsoft, beware: Linux fans are hell-bent on world domination.
    By Andrew Leonard May 30, 1998

  • The dumbing-down of programming

    Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?
    By Ellen Ullman May 13, 1998

  • The dumbing-down of programming

    Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. First of two parts.
    By Ellen Ullman May 12, 1998
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