Unix Vs. Linux: What’s the Difference Between Unix and Linux?

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What is UNIX?The UNIX OS was born in the late 1960s. AT&T Bell Labs released an operating system called Unix written in C, which allows quicker modification, acceptance, and portability.It began as a one-man project under the leadership of Ken Thompson of Bell Labs. It went on to...

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Pros of using Linux based Operating Systems for Programming

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The best thing about Linux is that it comes in-built with most of the compilers and interpreters, because of this there is no need for the user to download them. While on the other hand, Many other non-Linux Operating Systems don’t come with compilers or interpreters pre-installed. If...

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Virtualization In Cloud Computing and Types

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Virtualization is a technique of how to separate a service from the underlying physical delivery of that service. It is the process of creating a virtual version of something like computer hardware. It was initially developed during the mainframe era. It involves using specialized software to create a...

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Celebrating Open Anniversary 2021

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In 2021, the open source movement will be celebrating several important milestones, including the 30th Anniversary of Linux and the World Wide Web.This is a great opportunity to reflect about the impact the open source movement has had on your business and society as a whole. The 2021 Open...

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Free nerdy culture

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Although we tend to emphasize the technical aspects of our Free and Open Source Software Community, the truth is that hackers and nerds in general value all kinds of Free Knowledge. Actually, Eric S. Raymond points this out in his text, How to Become a Hacker;“The hacker mind-set...

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Different Ways to Create File in Linux

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There are mainly four ways of creating files in LINUX. All of them have their own purpose and benefits. They are as follows:1. cat commandIt is the most universal tool for creating files. We cannot edit a file using cat command. Major operations that can be done using...

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Linux Virtualization : Linux Containers (lxc)

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Introduction to virtualizationOperating-system-level virtualization is a server virtualization method in which the kernel of an operating system allows the existence of multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of just one. Such instances, which are sometimes called containers, software containers,virtualization engines (VEs) or jails (FreeBSD jail or chroot jail), may...

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LPI Certification Programs

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Linux certifications are highly recommended by many companies as Linux gaining recognition by global platforms these days. These Linux exams certification programs are gaining popularity among data administrators, system admins, DevOps engineers. It helps IT, professionals, to get knowledge and recognition.Linux Professional Institute (LPI) found in October 1999....

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What is Open API in UNIX?

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There is a set of generic APIs in UNIX which is used to manipulate files. One of these APIs is the open API. The open API is used to create new files and also to establish a connection between a process and a file. After a file is...

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Linux – Network Information Service

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The Network Information Service, or NIS (initially called YP or yellow pages), is a mainframe-client index service convention for circulating server configuration information, for example, client and host names between PCs on a PC network. Sun Microsystems built up the NIS; the innovation is authorized to essentially all...

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