UNIX® vs Linux®: What’s the difference?

UNIX and Linux are similar to users but different internally. UNIX was developed by AT&T in 1969 and licensed to commercial companies, governments, and educational institutions. BSD is a concurrent version of UNIX developed at UC Berkeley. Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and is generally distributed freely with source code under the […]

What’s a Unix® socket?

Unix® domain sockets are interprocess communication sockets that connect programs on the same computer. They are more like named pipes than traditional sockets and offer byte streams and datagrams. They are secure and assume Unix® system rules, making them useful for local area networks. They do not require authentication and are not accessible to untrusted […]

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