UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey, in order to advance with unix i feel i must understand the very basics and clarify some simple things before i get into more complex things...

My questions are:

A) When (in windows) i go to start > run > cmd.exe... is that unix???

B) When using linux's TUI... is that unix??

C) any good suggestions for a "Unix Cheat Sheet" i could print off and use while using unix...?


Thanks, and im sorry for the some what retarted questions... please refrain from flaming...
Thanx...
X.B

hehe your lucky this is a nice board...otherwise youd be on fire .

a. no, not at all. first of all unix is now a generic term referring to a number of different unix OS's. windows is NOT a unix OS. windows runs the win32 kernel and the NTs and XPs run on the NT windows kernel. while i believe the NT kernel has some POSIX conformance, it is defenitly NOT unix... nor will it be.... EVER.

b. i dont know what you mean by TUI, did you mean GUI? g and t are close together, we all make mistakes but please proof read your posts. when you are using a GUI on a unix OS, of course its unix, your running it on a "UNIX" os right ? (like linux, HPUX, *BSD??) yes it is unix.

c. yes a good "cheat sheet" for someone familiar with DOS would be a DOS to unix command equivalant sheet. while it would never list every command, it tell you the commands to use for basic shell manipulation, creating files, switching directories etc etc.

norsk hedensk, thanks for the reply. Now i know what windows NT is refering to when i hear people talk about it :-D

What i mean by TUI is textual user interface... (as in the oposite of GUI...) but u said that Linux... Is unix....

thanks for helpin...
X.B

most people i have ever talked to say "command line" vs TUI.

Here is a Microsoft Page which shows the versions of windows. In XP, if you open a cmd window and type "echo %os%" you will get "Windows_NT". Microsoft is killing off that other windows line. But yes, I see both unix and windows as a family of operating systems. Here is the unix family tree.

And I have always heard CLI verses GUI.