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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Never touched UNIX before.. Where do I start? Post 302487218 by kknigga on Tuesday 11th of January 2011 05:38:13 PM
Old 01-11-2011
If you are already familiar with some sort of virtualization technology (VMware, Virtual Box, or whatnot), I'd say the easiest thing to do would be to set up a VM or two and give a Linux distro a whirl. VMs are just too flexible and convenient to bother with physical hardware when you are talking about throwaway systems, unless you aren't already familiar with them and then it's just one more thing to learn.

On PC hardware you're most likely going to want to play with some sort of Linux. Unicies tend to run on specialized hardware the average person isn't going to own. Though, if you really want to try honest-to-goodness Unix, you could always go with Solaris 10 x86. You could even run that in a VM.
 

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net::server::proto::unix

Net::Server::Proto::UNIX(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX(3)

NAME

       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX - Net::Server UNIX protocol.

SYNOPSIS

       See Net::Server::Proto.

DESCRIPTION

       Protocol module for Net::Server.  This module implements the UNIX SOCK_STREAM socket type.  See Net::Server::Proto.

       Any sockets created during startup will be chown'ed to the user and group specified in the starup arguments.

PARAMETERS

       The following paramaters may be specified in addition to normal command line parameters for a Net::Server.  See Net::Server for more
       information on reading arguments.

       unix_type
	   Can be either SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM (default is SOCK_STREAM).  This can also be passed on the port line (see Net::Server::Proto).

	   However, this method is deprecated.	If you want SOCK_STREAM - just use proto UNIX without any other arguments.  If you'd like
	   SOCK_DGRAM, use the new proto UNIXDGRAM.

METHODS

       NS_unix_path/NS_unix_type
	   In addition to the standard NS_ methods of Net::Server::Proto classes, the UNIX types also have legacy calls to NS_unix_path and
	   NS_unix_type.

	   Since version 2.000, NS_unix_path is simply an alias to NS_port.  NS_unix_type is now redundant with NS_proto.

	   These methods were missing between version 2.000 and 2.003 but have been returned as legacy bridges.

QUICK PARAMETER LIST

	 Key		   Value		    Default

	 # deprecated UNIX socket parameters
	 unix_type	   (SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_DGRAM) SOCK_STREAM
	 port		   "filename"		    undef

	 # more recent usage
	 port		   "filename / UNIX"
	 port		   "filename / UNIXDGRAM"

LICENCE

       Distributed under the same terms as Net::Server

perl v5.18.2							    2012-06-06					       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX(3)
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