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Attached: 1 image All this talk about the end of the Unix workstation era, but nobody mentions Apple. One can buy macOS Ventura for Intel/Apple CPU, which is certified as Unix by The Open Group https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf . The Unix workstation and laptop line are alive. Just saying ...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Solaris-11.4-CBE
https://argosopentech.substack.com/p/the-unix-philosophy
The Unix Philosophy is a system design philosophy of using minimalist composable components. As a software development style the Unix Philosophy advocates building small tools that communicate over a universal interface to create larger systems. Higher level functionality then emerges from the combination of these composable tools instead of from a monolithic program.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/compsystems/1989/spr_duff.pdf
https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-on-the-path-to-bsd/
Find out about the first Unix editions, how C evolved, and which UNIX events led to the birth of BSD.
https://casey.is/blogging/file-permissions-in-unix/
How to read and modify file permissions in Unix.
https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/why-the-freebsd-desktop-and-my-linux-rant/
I have been a FreeBSD user for 4 years now, and a FreeBSD desktop user full time since December of last year (2020). Previously, I used FreeBSD on my desktop on and off since the end of 2019 and ha…
https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools
A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them. (Thanks for the tips, everybody!) dstat & sar # iostat, vmstat, ifstat and much more in one.
I've thinking and, before Linux, MINIX was the best operating system for students, and it even helped Linus Torvalds for creating it. Is it still used for educational or commercial purposes? Could you give aniy example?