¿What is Unix?
¿What is the best kit ?
¿What Linux works better?
¿Is it sure?
Unix has become the first operating system of Internet. In fact, Unix is the operating system more thoroughly used in the
world about computers with more power than the PC's.
Note for beginners:
The Serial Line Internet Protocol connections(SLIP) and Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) gives you a temporary address or Internet Protocol (IP) that
allow you to be directly connected to Internet. You has to use SLIP connection
as well as PPP connection, in order to use a Web Browser that provides you graphics and photos instead of single text. So if
you can see photos in the Net, you already have one of those available protocols.
Certainly, NT Windows is quickly arising like a common operating system of Internet, and
it's so marvelously buggy (with bugs) that it seems to be converted in the number one of crackear.
The great advantage of the systems based on UNIX is that you can run Unix in
your own computer and with a SLIP connection or PPP you can be connected
directly to Internet.
The advantage of using one of those direct connections for your search activities
is that you don't leave a file log of shell behind, so the system administrator
of your supplier cannot studie it attentively. Even if you are not breaking the law, a
log file of shell that shows you making some things related with searching, could be enough for some administrators in order to close
your bill.
There are countless variants of Unix that run in PCs. Most of them could
be free, or available very cheap in CD-ROMs.
What type of Linux works better?
It depend on what you really want to make. Redhat or Slackware? Linux is famous by being the
easier to install. The Walnut Creek Linux 3.0 in CD-ROM is also really easy to install--for Linux, that is! My
idea is to have many versions of Linux and mix and gather the best of each distribution.
INSTALLING LINUX is not for people that suffer of heart! Several tricks in order to survive to the installation
are:
1) Although in theory you could run Linux in a 286 with 4 MB RAM and two units of disk,
is* much* easier with a 486 or bigger with 8 MB RAM, a CD-ROM, and at least 200 MB free of hard disk.
2) Try to know everything about the type of motherboard, modem, hard disk, CD-ROM, and
video badge !! that
you have. If you have any documentation of them, keep with you in order to consult during the installation.
3) it's better to use known hardware and old one in your PC. Since Linux is
freeware, it doesn't offer drivers for the whole new hardware. And if your hardware is like mine--a heap of things of X mark and The Cheapo,
you could waste a lot of time experiencing with which drivers works.
4) before beginning the installation, MAKE A BACKUP of your hard disk !
In theory you could install Linux without damaging your files DOS/ Windows. But all
we are human beings, especially if we continued the advice 3)
5) Have more than one Linux distribution. The first time you install Linux with success, finally touch something that work using the
boot disk of a distribution with the CD-ROM of another. Anyway, each Linux distribution has several
utilities programs, emulators of operating system, compilers and others. Add them
to your system and
you will be prepared in order to be above the elite.
The three main variants of Unix that run in PCs are Solaris of Sun, FreeBSD and
Linux. Solaris costs around $700. I think it's so much. FreeBSD is
so good but it doesn't offer much support. Linux, however, has the advantage of being available
in many variants and with the extra advantage of possessing thousand of programs for this system and several
versions of that.
More over, Linux is leaning on many news groups, mail lists, and Web
sites.
Under this agreement the original creators of Linux don't receive any license's quota
or shareware one. Linus Torvalds and the many others that have been contributed in Linux,
they been made by the amusement of programming and by a community sense.
Linux is the operating system inself (called the "kernel")
and several associate programs.
The kernel, like all types of Unix, is an operating system many-worked and
multiple-user. Although it has different structure of files, and that's
why is not directly compatible with DOS and Windows,
is so flexible that many programs DOS and Windows will execute while we are in Linux.
So, an user will probably want to pull up in Linux and later be able to run programs DOS and Windows from Linux.
Associates programs that come with most of distributions of Linux include:
* a shell program (Bourne Again Shell--BASH-- is the most common)
* compilers for programming languages such as Fortran-77, C, C+, Pascal, LISP, Modula-2, Ada, Basic, and Smalltalk.
* X-Window (sometimes called X-windows), a graphic user's interface.
*utilities programs like the reader of Pine email and Elm.
The 10 reasons in order to install Linux in your PC: (not very serious by the way)
1. When Linux will be "outside of the law," only the outside of the law will have Linux.
J
2. When you settle Linux, it's so amusing execute fdisk without have done a
backup before.
3. The flames you will receive by making questions in the news groups of Linux are
better than those ones from alt.windows.2000 J
4. Doesn't matter wich variant of Linux you install, tomorrow you will discover that there was a
better version that
you should have gotten instead of this. J
5. People that use FreeBSD or Solaris won't laugh of you. Instead of this they will offer their sympathy. J
6. Surfing for the ports in private.
7. A word: scripts.
8.To install Linux in your office's PC is like being a mail employee and take an Uzi to the work. J
9. But--if you install Linux in your office computer, your boss won't have no idea of what it means. J
10. Bill Gates never forgives you !! J
6) I buyed two or three books about Linux. I didn't like any of them! But there
are better that nothing. Most of the books of Linux come with one or two CD-ROMs that they could be used in order to install Linux. But I
found that what comes in the books doesn't coincide exactly with what comes in the CD-ROMs.
The best that I have found is http://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/
Include the Linux Frequently Asked Questions list (FAQ), available in
The HOWTO file of Linux is in the pub/ Linux/docs/ LDP directory of
sunsite.unc.edu and contains the current set of LDP manuals, and the direct access to the documentation is:
You could obtain the "Linux Installation and Getting Started" of sunsite.unc.edu in/
pub/ Linux/ docs/ LDP/ install-guide. The README file from there describe how
you could request a printed copy of the book of the same name (about 180 pages).
You can posting , questions on the incredible number of news groups of Usenet that cover Linux. These include:
comp.os.linux.advocacy
The benefits of compared Linux
comp.os.linux.development.system Kernels of Linux,
devices drivers
comp.os.linux.development.apps
Writing Linux applications
comp.os.linux.hardware
Compatibility of hardware
comp.os.linux.networking
Nets and communications
comp.os.linux.answers
FAQs, How-To's, READMEs, etc.
linux.redhat.misc
alt.os.linux
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
The Usenet University helps you
comp.os.linux.announce
comp.os.linux.misc
You should visit the MARVELOUS Linux paginate in:
comp.os.linux.x
comp.os.linux.setup
System settling
http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux,
that has tons of information this http://www.linux.org/.
You will want to check http://www.redhat.com/ y http://www.caldera.com/
for more information about commercial versions of Linux" (that they are still available free
as GNU)."
Yes, Linux, like all operating system, is imperfect. Eminently hackeable, if you really want to know it. So if yout want to know how to assure your Linux system, or if you meet with one of the many suppliers that use Linux and you want to explore (ups, forget that I wrote that), here is where you could go for information: