It does not really matter these days whether UNIX per-se is completely open sourced or not.
As some versions are, some are not, however the simplicity coupled with power at your fingertips is legendary these days...
As a novice at the *NIX family of OSes the single beauty to me is that everything is a __file__.
These __files__ can technically be read from and written to without much of a fuss.
Take the following, (this assumes /dev/dsp exists and an internal mic on your system)......
......records a few seconds of voice then replays that recording from from the same device, continuously.
This could be the basis of a simple baby alarm all with the simplicity of "everything is a file".
So from one line of 25 characters of an open sourced command, cat , you have tremendous power at your fingertips.
This alone is both elegant and beautiful, and 'cat' along with other *NIX commands IS/ARE open source...
Hi Friends
I'm new to this UNIX - I'm working on the porting project from Solaris To Linux i just want to map some commands from solaris to Linux so can any one please tell me how to get the source code of the commands like "ls", "cu", "du"
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sabee (1 Reply)
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I am a mid-career programmer with extensive experience in object-oriented design and development in C, C++, and C#. I've written a number of multi-threaded server applications and background services, although my grasp of networking protocols is a bit weak: my current job drifted away from... (2 Replies)
Hello guys,
I need an open source tool that can list all the softwares installed in my unix/linux servers, the tool should list all the softwares installed and the current version, grouped by the hostname, anybody know any solution for this specific problem?
Thanks guys, have a good day! (7 Replies)