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 ...

I have decided to make FreeBSD my learning platform for programming a unix-like os. Would it be a good idea to get the boxed set that is on retail shelves? I have already successfully installed ...

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.

If you need a quick reference on the basics of Unix, have I got a deal for you. The Unix enthusiast over at freeengineer.org has put together "the basic commands for getting started using the UNIX ...

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), ...