Summary

Being a UNIX fan doesn't mean that you have to throw away all the best features of desktop operating systems. Whether you're an aficionado of Windows or Macintosh, applications such as the MKS Toolkit and MachTen offer the best of all worlds.

If that's not the direction you'd like to travel, you can create a dual-boot system with a UNIX operating system as the native OS on your computer (PC or Mac) and your regular OS installed too. You simply pick which one you want when you start the hardware each time. I have a Pentium system with three different operating systems installed: Windows NT, Windows 95, and Linux.

You've gotten through the entire book, all 24 hours, and you're now a bona fide UNIX expert. If you follow up by using the system ...

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