After three decades of use, the UNIX computer operating system from Bell Labs is still regarded as one of the most powerful, versatile, and flexible operating systems in the computer world. Its popularity is due to many factors, including its ability to run a wide variety of machines, from micros ...

FreeBSD a perfect Operating System There are many operating systems out in the world at the current time, however as you've probably realized or would guess some are better than others. For example windows is the most well known and most used Operating System out on the market today and for t...

Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, telnet was the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other computers around the world. Telnet is a plain ASCII terminal emulation protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sources, most no...

A history of GNU and Linux This is a somewhat bowlderized history; please check the specifics before basing any research papers on it. Unix is born Unix came to be back in 1969. and has evolved a great deal since then. It was reimplemented in C during 1972-1974, and is therefore the first sourc...

ssh Used to protect against IP spoofing and source routing SSL Used to provide security for general Internet services SATAN Used for remote scanning of Unix and firewall systems Kerberos Used to reduce system vulnerability to .rhosts attacks Features of the Client/Server authentication exchange: T...