frank392 wrote: any good book on UNIX tha you could recommend?
To my apprentices I always recommend this one:
UNIX for Dummies. It's written in a very funny way and gives you a good general overview, and yet you can learn a lot. There is a similar one:
Linux for Dummies. That one focusses more on Linux (and not so much on UNIX in general as the other one does), but it too is written in a very funny and entertaining way.
BTW, when in those books they mention a certain
"Bill" who invented things and that you should not dare to criticise those inventions (or "Bill" might get angry ...) .... They are talking of
Bill Joy from
SUN Microsystems ... and not that certain other "Bill" from a certain company in Redmond ... (that "Bill" definitely never invented anything):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy
"... He was largely responsible for the authorship of
Berkeley UNIX, also known as
BSD, from which spring many modern forms of UNIX, including
FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and
OpenBSD. Apple Computer has also based much of the
Mac OS X operating system line on
BSD technology.
Some of his most notable contributions were TCP/IP, the vi editor, NFS, and the csh shell. He rewrote BSD in one weekend, according to Nerds 2.0.1. ..."
So that's why. Someone who can rightfully claim to have invented TCP/IP, the "vi" editor and having been the key-person to create BSD UNIX is pretty much off-limits for criticism by us mortal beings. That would be blasphemy
Scorp123 did and he is absolutely right (as always - almost 
