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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Is UNIX an open source OS ? Post 302911211 by sreyan32 on Wednesday 30th of July 2014 02:04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Corona688

The terminal device is a serial port -- either a real, physical serial port, or an emulated one(i.e, a vterm). Any proper terminal in UNIX, even a graphical one, will use one.

This is because UNIX serial devices come with lots and lots and lots of built-in software features. Have you ever hit ctrl-C to kill a stuck program? The serial port, even an emulated one in a GUI, does that directly. It has a "send SIGINT when you hit this key" setting.

I am sorry for being blunt first of all. But what you said makes absolutely no sense to me. Why would a terminal need a serial port to function ? Also I have used the terminal in both Debian and Fedora distributions. I have never made any connection to any serial port before using them !
Why would I need to do so ? OSes like Windows also offer ctrl+c combination to kill the program(not that I like comparing Windows and UNIX I am just trying to get my point across). And what do you mean by it does that directly ? How can a serial port send signals to the CPU ?

I am sorry but I don't understand what you are saying probably because I am starting out with UNIX. Do you think I should post a separate thread about this topic dealing with serial ports and terminal devices ? Because its getting off topic here.

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Originally Posted by Corona688

Imagine you're running out of space on drive C in Windows, and add another hard drive to deal with it. Now you have a drive D with lots of space -- which is no help at all since C is where you need it.

In UNIX, you could attach the new drive's partitions wherever you wanted -- /home/ for example, if that particular folder is very big.

If I am not mistaken you mean that you can move around partitions right ? For example I can unmount the /home partition and put it in a different hard disk all together and use it from there right ?
But then why would you call it "partition nesting" ? because that sounds a partition within another partition.

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