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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Beginning with UNIX Post 302105548 by Calum on Friday 2nd of February 2007 01:56:20 PM
Old 02-02-2007
hi there. When i was in a similar position to you, i found this book invaluable:

Unix Unleashed from SAMS Publishing

There are a couple of different versions, not sure if you get all the chapters in the one i linked to. Anyway, this book does not assume any one type of *ix system, and everything in it should be platform independent. Given that it starts at the basics and covers just about everything, it really is invaluable to a newcomer, in my opinion.

If you haven't got a *ix on your PC, i would recommend using fedora or ubuntu to start with, or if you don't mind a steeper learning curve, use slackware. Slackware has fewer distro-specific commands and so in my opinion, it reflects "unix" better than the other two, but slackware is quite frustrating for the uninitiate, there's the tradeoff. You could also try one of the *BSDs or, Sun has finally made a "free" version of Solaris for PC if you want to be a bit exotic. You may not be aware but very few systems actually run "UNIX" as such these days, though it depends if you count Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and *BSD as Unix, since none of them actually are UNIX, but they can all trace their parentage back to it. Linux, on the other hand, is a from-scratch UNIX clone, which uses large amounts of software from GNU, which is a project which intends to provide a suite of software which clones UNIX software, but which is available for anyone to use, modify and redistribute. There are volumes of reading you could do on this, if interested, i would say, start here and i suppose i should mention this by way of balance.

Also, you have a head start in using *ix if you have MacOSX since it is a very distant descendent of UNIX (although i am sure somebody will "correct" me by elaborating!). I haven't really tried MacOSX, but i would be interested to hear how your experiences compare between it and other *ix systems.
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grub2-file

GRUB-FILE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      GRUB-FILE(1)

NAME

       grub-file -- Check if FILE is of specified type.

SYNOPSIS

       grub-file (--is-i386-xen-pae-domu | --is-x86_64-xen-domu |
		  --is-x86-xen-dom0 | --is-x86-multiboot |
		  --is-x86-multiboot2 | --is-arm-linux | --is-arm64-linux |
		  --is-ia64-linux | --is-mips-linux | --is-mipsel-linux |
		  --is-sparc64-linux | --is-powerpc-linux | --is-x86-linux |
		  --is-x86-linux32 | --is-x86-kfreebsd | --is-i386-kfreebsd |
		  --is-x86_64-kfreebsd | --is-x86-knetbsd |
		  --is-i386-knetbsd | --is-x86_64-knetbsd | --is-i386-efi |
		  --is-x86_64-efi | --is-ia64-efi | --is-arm64-efi |
		  --is-arm-efi | --is-hibernated-hiberfil | --is-x86_64-xnu |
		  --is-i386-xnu | --is-xnu-hibr | --is-x86-bios-bootsector)
		  FILE

DESCRIPTION

       grub-file is used to check if FILE is of a specified type.

OPTIONS

       --is-i386-xen-pae-domu
	      Check if FILE can be booted as i386 PAE Xen unprivileged guest kernel

       --is-x86_64-xen-domu
	      Check if FILE can be booted as x86_64 Xen unprivileged guest kernel

       --is-x86-xen-dom0
	      Check if FILE can be used as Xen x86 privileged guest kernel

       --is-x86-multiboot
	      Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot kernel

       --is-x86-multiboot2
	      Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot2 kernel

       --is-arm-linux
	      Check if FILE is ARM Linux

       --is-arm64-linux
	      Check if FILE is ARM64 Linux

       --is-ia64-linux
	      Check if FILE is IA64 Linux

       --is-mips-linux
	      Check if FILE is MIPS Linux

       --is-mipsel-linux
	      Check if FILE is MIPSEL Linux

       --is-sparc64-linux
	      Check if FILE is SPARC64 Linux

       --is-powerpc-linux
	      Check if FILE is POWERPC Linux

       --is-x86-linux
	      Check if FILE is x86 Linux

       --is-x86-linux32
	      Check if FILE is x86 Linux supporting 32-bit protocol

       --is-x86-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is x86 kFreeBSD

       --is-i386-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is i386 kFreeBSD

       --is-x86_64-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 kFreeBSD

       --is-x86-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is x86 kNetBSD

       --is-i386-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is i386 kNetBSD

       --is-x86_64-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 kNetBSD

       --is-i386-efi
	      Check if FILE is i386 EFI file

       --is-x86_64-efi
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 EFI file

       --is-ia64-efi
	      Check if FILE is IA64 EFI file

       --is-arm64-efi
	      Check if FILE is ARM64 EFI file

       --is-arm-efi
	      Check if FILE is ARM EFI file

       --is-hibernated-hiberfil
	      Check if FILE is hiberfil.sys in hibernated state

       --is-x86_64-xnu
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)

       --is-i386-xnu
	      Check if FILE is i386 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)

       --is-xnu-hibr
	      Check if FILE is XNU (Mac OS X kernel) hibernated image

       --is-x86-bios-bootsector
	      Check if FILE is BIOS bootsector

SEE ALSO

       info grub

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