Rudix offers a collection of Unix utilities which do not come with OS X by default. Although Rudix offers a giant 361MB DMG with all of the packages includes, I recommend only installing what you need ...

The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you're migrating from Linux, you'll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren't ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) utilities. UNIX Interoperability components in Windows Server 2003 R2 allow you to reduce costs by integrating UNIX and ...

MKS supports various Make programs, giving users a choice between GMake, NMake and MKS Make. When Windows NT was introduced in the mid-1990s, MKS rolled out the Nutcracker tool, designed to port code ...

With the release of Mac OS X, Apple brought its easy to use interface together with one of the most powerful operating systems in the world, Unix. Knowing you have that “power under the hood” is ...

2015 and 2016 might be remembered as the years when hell froze over repeatedly, in no small part thanks to Microsoft. The company whose CEO once described Linux as a cancer is seemingly now going ...

The tee utility faced its first fairway on UNIX platforms, and has been ported to Windows by other providers of UNIX-style utilities. The tee utility actually derives from plumbing. Input and output ...

This will be my last foray into UEFI firmware for quite a while. For those who are already tired of my writing about it, I apologize in advance; for those who have asked for more, here it is. For the ...

The command-line terminal is still one of the most popular features of Linux, even though graphical interfaces have been common in desktop computers for decades. There are a few reasons for the ...