How to Find Out More

There are many resources for information about UNIX systems. Some universities have web sites designed to help their students get up and running with UNIX. Although these often include details about the particular systems at the university, they can still be very helpful for a new user. These sites include

• http://unixdocs.stanford.edu/

• http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/search.plx?browseid=34

• http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/LCSR-Computing/

• http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Misc/Unix-info/

As mentioned, the UNIX man pages can be difficult to interpret. This book is similar in style to the man pages but is a bit easier to read. It covers all the common UNIX commands:

• Robbins, Arnold. UNIX in a Nutshell 4th ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2006.

In addition, the following web sites were mentioned in this chapter. Terminal applications for the PC (to connect to remote systems) can be downloaded from

• http://www. chiark.greenend.org. uk/~sgtatham/putty/

• http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/

You can find out about different Linux distributions at

• http://distrowatch.com/

You can view screenshots of many UNIX variants at

• http://shots.osdir.com/

Popular Linux distributions include

• http://www.ubuntu.com/

• http://www. xandros. com/

• http://www.opensuse.org/

• http://fedoraproject. org/

• http://www.mandrivalinux.com/

• http://www. debian. org/

• http://www.mepis.org/

The homepage for FreeBSD is

• http://www.freebsd.org/

You can acquire Solaris from

• http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

• http://store.sun.com/