A Dummies Guide to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. - 1.0

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Jan Cumps — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:56:56 GMT

Solaris is the first system I did unix development on. It was the OS of choice when running Oracle ERP on Oracle managed servers and services.

Later they migrated to Dell and Linux. My conspiracy theory is that they did it as part of bringing SUN’s stock price down before hitting them with a hostile takeover ... [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-7170c6da-d773-4fa6-851a-284026409b52/4670.contentimage_5F00_930.png:16:16]

RE: A Dummies Guide to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. - 1.0

dubbie — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:47:11 GMT

I always thought it was fascinating that these two people also invented C in order to help them write Unix. I still find that difficult to comprehend.

Dubbie

PS I still remember punch cards. I was sad when my University took me from punch card to online terminals without going to paper tape as I had been looking forward to using paper tape for three years.

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chris_b — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:28:25 GMT

Wow! This Chart wakes little nostalgic feelings in me. I touched, more or less every derivative on this Chart since 1988. Started my career with Sinix on MX500 Systems from Siemens, followed by Reliant Unix which was both System V derivates. And now my day to day work is dominated by Linux and AIX.

RE: A Dummies Guide to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. - 1.0

jomoenginer — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 04:51:11 GMT

Linus did not initially create the Linux kernel, he created a program using MINUX ( A Unix-like OS but not derived from Unix) and GNU C compiler to control hardware on his x386. He initially wanted to call it Freax and the original project was created with this name. It was an administrator that changed the name to Linux and Linus decided to keep it. This work later became the Linux Kernel.

However, since Unix came from Ken Thompson's work on Multics, then to be true to the path, one could say Linux is distance cousin of Multics.

You make a lot of generalizations regarding Unix. I am curious which flavor of Unix are you referencing; Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc...? None of these are the same and the command structure maybe different especially when it comes to disk formatting and filesystem structure. One hoping from an Linux system maybe completely lost on a AIX system.

RE: A Dummies Guide to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. - 1.0

beacon_dave — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:14:11 GMT

In Windows you have shortcuts.. we have something much better, we have link & ulink lets say I use a directory that is not in my home directory what you can make a "Symbolic Link": ln -s target directory local-name. So link is ln and ulink is the unlink command.

Just for completeness, in Windows with the NTFS file system you have access to symbolic links, hard links and junctions (soft links) as well as shortcuts.

You can create / delete them with 'mklink' command from the command prompt.

Hard Links and Junctions

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspx

Symbolic Links (Absolute / Relative)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363878(v=vs.85).aspx

RE: A Dummies Guide to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. - 1.0

phoenixcomm — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:02:15 GMT

I tried to get this across. UNIX was a game changer... as I have said Linux is a Child of Unix.