Paul Kinane wrote:Linux is modeled on Unix, but developed independently, and is free, open sourced software. Unix, in its many flavors is propriatery, although I think Sun might have open sourced their version of Unix, but I could be very wrong.
You've included a "Download Windows 7" linun in the Linux forum?
Sun has released an open-source version of Solaris known as OpenSolaris. It's under a slightly different license (CDDL). Since you can also download Solaris itself for free these days (they charge for the support, not the OS), you might wonder why 2 different versions. One reason is that OpenSolaris has become sort of Sun's "Fedora".
"sh *.sh" is a dangerous thing to do. It literally means, "make a list of all the files in the current directory whose names end with ".sh". For each one of them, search the PATH for an executable with that name. Execute it." What makes it especially risky is that the current directory isn't part of the PATH by default (unlike DOS/Windows). So the executable may be somewhere else entirely. And, of course, if the "x" bit isn't set, an "executable" isn't considered executable, and won't be chosen.
