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    The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development....
    18 KB (2,178 words) - 09:47, 23 May 2025
  • UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews...
    31 KB (4,277 words) - 13:55, 3 April 2025
  • particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself. It is an interface...
    16 KB (2,133 words) - 12:57, 17 May 2025
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    Executable and Linkable Format (category CS1 maint: archived copy as title)
    accepted among different vendors of Unix systems. In 1999, it was chosen as the standard binary file format for Unix and Unix-like systems on x86 processors...
    38 KB (2,185 words) - 08:53, 27 May 2025
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    interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...
    116 KB (9,488 words) - 09:15, 27 May 2025
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    Linux (category Unix variants)
    Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/, LIN-uuks) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released...
    121 KB (11,096 words) - 21:23, 28 May 2025
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    Dennis Ritchie (category Unix people)
    American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. Ritchie...
    35 KB (3,319 words) - 18:02, 27 April 2025
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    Redirection (computing) (category Unix software)
    is a function common to most command-line interpreters, including the various Unix shells that can redirect standard streams to user-specified locations...
    13 KB (1,499 words) - 20:32, 25 April 2024
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    GNU Hurd (category Unix variants)
    replacement for the Unix kernel, and released as free software under the GNU General Public License. When the Linux kernel proved to be a viable solution...
    25 KB (2,497 words) - 22:11, 23 May 2025
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    programs) needed to be free software. Stallman decided to call this operating system GNU (a recursive acronym meaning "GNU's not Unix!"), basing its design...
    29 KB (3,091 words) - 23:40, 27 May 2025
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    Santa Cruz Operation (category Unix history)
    selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare. SCO...
    186 KB (18,925 words) - 08:56, 25 January 2025
  • "Windows NT Contains File System Tunneling Capabilities". Microsoft Support. Discussion about Windows and Unix timestamps (Cygwin project mailing list)...
    7 KB (935 words) - 17:07, 29 January 2023
  • programming language, C, to make it portable. The availability and portability of Unix caused it to be widely adopted, copied and modified by academic...
    69 KB (7,620 words) - 17:32, 16 March 2025
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    referred to SCO and later called The TSG Group) was an American software company in existence from 2002 to 2012 that became known for owning Unix operating...
    138 KB (14,940 words) - 11:23, 17 May 2025
  • Robert Morris (cryptographer) (category Copy to Wikiquote)
    runoff text-formatting program for Multics. Morris's contributions to early versions of Unix include the math library, the dc programming language, the program...
    8 KB (741 words) - 09:35, 27 May 2025
  • the NTFS Master File Table (MFT). NTFS broadly adopts a pattern akin to typical Unix file systems in the way it stores and references file data and metadata;...
    28 KB (3,463 words) - 14:11, 26 May 2025
  • schism in the developer community. Forking proprietary software (such as Unix) is prohibited by copyright law without explicit permission, but free and...
    17 KB (1,984 words) - 12:01, 12 May 2025
  • command-line execution. SSH was designed for Unix-like operating systems as a replacement for Telnet and unsecured remote Unix shell protocols, such as the Berkeley...
    41 KB (4,509 words) - 13:51, 24 May 2025
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    BusyBox (category Unix software)
    BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux...
    38 KB (3,863 words) - 11:03, 13 May 2025
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    of Minix, began the debate in Usenet discussion group comp.os.minix, arguing that microkernels are superior to monolithic kernels and therefore Linux...
    21 KB (2,410 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2025
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