Hour 24. Variations on the UNIX Theme
You are now done and are an expert on the UNIX operating system. Congratulations!
In this final lesson, I'd like to give you a quick overview of two really cool applications, MachTen for the Macintosh platform, and the MKS Toolkit for Windows 95/98/NT. Both of these let you have a very UNIX-like environment running simultaneously with your favorite operating environment.
I could have talked about different UNIX flavors, listed the four basic types of UNIX you can install on a PC (Linux—my favorite, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and BSDi), or discussed the other UNIXes you might encounter (Solaris from Sun Microsystems, HP-UX from Hewlett-Packard, AIX from IBM, and so on). If you're like me, however, you'd rather have ...
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