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Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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The cult of dd (2017)

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How much faster is making a tar archive without gzip?

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Programming on 34 Keys

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Linux Sysops Handbook

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NeXTSpirit: high-res NeXTSTEP Icons for macOS

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How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)

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Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999)

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The T-34 keyboard layout

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Window System Design: If I had it to do over again in 2002 [pdf]

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A Shell Language in Lisp

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Fix Terminals

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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy

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Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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REBOL Shell Interface

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NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software

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Rediscovering CardDAV

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Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)

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The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)

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Small stupid things that make up my dev environment

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Portability of tar features

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A look at terminal emulators, part 1

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Mythology About Security

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The Cult of DD

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The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy

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Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes

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Htop Explained Visually

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The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)

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More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization

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Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)

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Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015

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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Runit – a Unix init scheme with service supervision

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No one expects command execution

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Brian's Rules for Writing Cross Platform 'C' Code (2008)

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I mortgaged my future with a Mac

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Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

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Bash Initialisation Files

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Interesting new Unix commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion

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Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix

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TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement

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Terminal app for the Kindle

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How to write cross-platform code

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Rootless Root - The Unix Koans of Master Foo (Eric S. Raymond)

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Linux Compose Key

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A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down

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Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022)

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State of the Terminal

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Trackmania Nightmares

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ps aux written in bash without forking

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