Unix and Linux
Different manufactures supply their computers with slightly different versions of unix, and linux is a version of unix for PC's. However the differences are in the organisation of the operating system, and for the user they are all virtually identical.
- At the beginning of the year there is a workshop introducing
the use of linux. The
online tutorial is available.
- Another online
tutorial is available from the Electronic Engineering Dept of the
University of Surrey.
- Some unix
fundamentals are available from New Mexico Tech.
- More unix help is available
from the University of Edinburgh.
- A more advanced
bash (linux command shell) programming tutorial is available
from the IBM developerWorks.
- The RedHat manuals are available online from our manuals page or
from the RedHat website. There are manuals available to cover many
aspects of RedHat Linux.
- The
digital
unix documentation library is available online from
HP.
- The
IRIX
6.5 documentation library is available online from the SGI
website.
- Guidelines for buying and using linux computers in the School of Chemistry. (Chemistry access only).