Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always “use it” or maybe as much as “use it — a lot.” But the detailed answer includes a lot of steps ...

Noting that Mac OS X has “turned unsuspecting Mac users into Unix users, too,” O’Reilly announced the publication of Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson’s “Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther” on Wednesday.

Dave Taylor's "Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion" offers an in-depth tutorial for OS X power users who have not yet mastered Unix. Written for technically competent readers, it focuses on ...

I'm asking, since I'm eager to learn some unix tools. The reason is that my university runs solaris, and has only a select few Windows Machines. So the next five to seven years (prey it's not longer), ...

ITworld.com – One of the more frustrating aspects of learning Unix, or just about any computer language for that matter, is trying to recall the names of unfamiliar commands. This is especially ...