Please tell me where can I download UNIX , as I am new to open source programming.
Or , any other software for unix kernel programming .
Please answer with details . Thanks
Cheers
SAM
Unix (today) is not an OS at all, is a a standard, a set of requirements put on paper. It is part of POSIX, which different operating systems try to follow, more or less successfully: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
Yes, BUT he will either need a Mac or build a Hackintosh. I suspect he's got an older PC and wishes to install a Unix derivative on it, hence why I suggested Linux.
BTW - I use Macs, I prefer them to PCs with Windows
I have windows 8 and want UNIX or some other software like bash , telnet, etc for doing kernel programming or exceuting commands of unix/linux , as I am new to open source programming , I can learn through it.
I have windows 8 and want UNIX or some other software like bash , telnet, etc for doing kernel programming or exceuting commands of unix/linux , as I am new to open source programming , I can learn through it.
Well, get a version of Linux (read a Linux User magazine or something similar to help you decide which one you would like) and then dual boot to Linux | Windows 8.
I thought that Linux and FreeBSD were Unix-like, not Unix.
Edit: especially looking on GNU's meaning(and we are using GNU/Linux), also looking at origins of Linux.
linux is based off unix yes, but they are still two different operating system types.
Mac OS X is UNIX. :0)
no its not
Yes, BUT he will either need a Mac or build a Hackintosh.
I have windows 8 and want UNIX or some other software like bash , telnet, etc for doing kernel programming or exceuting commands of unix/linux , as I am new to open source programming , I can learn through it.
You can write open source programs in Windows 8. "Open" and "closed" are all about license terms; the code does not differ. You don't need any open source tools in order to write free code.
You can install and use open source programs, for example many GNU tools, in Windows 8.
I do not recommend telnet for anything; there are more secure communication protocols.
OS kernel programming is a very special field of its own, totally unrelated to "open source programming".
Mac Os is NOT unix :P
Mac is unix-like and certified as unix-compatible but it is not UNIX
It is unix-derived like linux before Mac itself
Perhaps you should consider on using freeBSD or a linux distro designed to be more similar to unix (so a distro like Slackware, or try to build LFS if you want to try the "hero way"), meaning that they relies less on package managers, but they are more concerned in terminal
(example: in a sample Ubuntu installation you does not have "developers" tools by default - ex. gcc, make)
You can also consider gentoo, that it is a linux distro completely designed to be installed from source code (but perhaps you need a linux host system to install it, becouse you need to build the kernel, If I remember well).
However as others said: Linux and freeBSD are not unix (neither Mac is).
The more similar to unix are probably freeBSD and Slackware linux (and perhaps gentoo, but I never tested it)