Rosetta Stone for Unix
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A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE) OR What do they call that in this world?
Contributions and corrections gratefully accepted. Please help us fill in the blanks. New "tasks" are welcome, too!
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Framed version.
OS versions in parentheses; e.g. 10+ means version 10 and greater; 9- means version 9 and previous. $=extra cost. (obs) = obsolete
If not specified, commands are in one of the following directories: /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin
Files referenced may be either commands, configuration files, or directly-referenced text files. Use the man command to read the man pages for details such as command options.
Categories:
hardware, firmware, devices
disks
kernel, boot, swap
files, volumes
networking
security, backup
software, patching, tracing, logging
references
TASK \ OS
AIX
A/UX
DG/UX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
IRIX
Linux
Mac OS X
NCR Unix
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Reliant
SCO OpenServer
Solaris
SunOS 4
Tru64
Ultrix
UNICOS
OS / TASK
OS notes
By IBM, with input from
System V, BSD, etc. Runs
mainly on IBM RS/6000 and
related hardware.
Apple 1988-1995. Based
on AT&T SysV.2.2 with
extensions from V.3, V.4,
and BSD 4.2 and 4.3
Data General was aquired
by EMC in 1999.
Derived from 4.4BSD-Lite and
386BSD. This table does not
include external packages from
/usr/ports.
Hewlett-Packard.
SGI. SVR4-based
(rh) = Red Hat,
Mandrake, SUSE,...
(deb) = Debian, Libranet,...
(fed) = Fedora
(gen) = Gentoo
(md) = Mandrake/Mandriva
(SUSE) = SUSE
Darwin is the Open Source
foundation for Mac OS X,
descended from NeXTStep
aka MP-RAS
Derived from 4