Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Evolution of shells in Linux

A brief article on the IBM developerWorks site about the history of Unix shell programs and their Linux implementations:

Evolution of shells in Linux:

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Friday, December 2, 2011

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix - IEEE Spectrum

For those of you interested in where the basic concepts and design (but not code!) in Linux comes from, here is a great article in IEEE Spectrum on the development and history of Unix.

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix - IEEE Spectrum:

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