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Which was the very first music player application for Linux?
I'm writing an article about FOSS and Linux music players. What was the very first music player application for Linux? Was there ever a time when the players didn't support proprietary formats like ...
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Is Linus Torvalds a hacker? [closed]
Maybe wrong place for the question, but I couldn't find the answer.
The wiki says he's software engineer and hacker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds)
Is it true?
I must tell I haven't ...
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Why is JFS so obscure?
When I first got into using Slackware years ago I quickly learned to love JFS over ext3 or reiserfs given that it was reliable and if there was an unclean shutdown, its disk checking was very very ...
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view history of opened programs Manjaro Linux
Is there a way to view a log, or history of all programs opened in Manjaro Linux?
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When were the first graphical app installers created for Linux distributions
Having a discussion at work with a colleague, and he is claiming graphical installers for *nix environments have only been available for the last few years, but I can't find any solid information on ...
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Does CentOS fall into System V family? How is it considered to be while comparing with Unix System V family?
CentOS is "derived entirely from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution" (more here).
Does it fall into any UNIX System V family? Such as PDP-11 or etc?
If not, where does CentOS stands ...
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Is it true that the first version of Linux was based on parts of Unix?
Me and a friend had a discussion about Linux and Unix today and my friend kept saying that the first version of the Linux kernel was based on [parts] of the Unix kernel.
This really surprised me ...
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What are all the items on the cover of the “Linux Administration Handbook”?
As I mentioned in What do all the pictures on the front of the "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" represent? I'm fairly new to Linux and Unix.
@jasonwryan provided an excellent ...
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What do all the pictures on the front of the “Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook” represent?
I'm a newcomer to Unix and Linux, and I've been trying to get up to speed on everything. One of the guides I've used is the "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook"
It's a pretty great book, ...
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What are the main differences between BSD- and linux-based operating systems?
I am a long time linux user and have recently become interested in playing about with BSD-based operating systems. What are the differences between linux and BSD-based systems. I am interested in ...
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Why do we need the reboot function in different binaries?
Why do we need the reboot function in different binaries?
shutdown -r
and
reboot
Or do they differ in something?
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“Linux supports the dynamic loading of kernel modules. ”
I read in a book written by Robert Love that:
Linux supports the dynamic loading of kernel modules.
He said this is the difference between Linux and Unix, but I seem to recall there is also KLD ...
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Who wrote the “Linux kernel” (Linus Torvalds and his team)?
Who are the authors of the pure Linux kernel from scratch, which was integrated with GNU tools and formed the full GNU/Linux Operating system in the 1990s? I have read some wiki articles but I haven't ...
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Is Linux a Unix?
So, there are lots of different versions of Unix out there: HP-UX, AIX, BSD, etc. Linux is considered a Unix clone rather than an implementation of Unix. Are all the "real" Unices actual descendants ...
