1.4 Environment

All of the examples given in this book were performed on machines running some flavor of the Unix operating system, in particular Solaris and Linux. All of the programs should work on other flavors of Unix as well, but the more exotic the variant, the more likely you will run into problems. A number of the programs advertise that they work under Windows too, and now that modern versions of MacOS run Unix under the hood, it should be possible to build the tools for those platforms as well.