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J. WestfallSet Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Serverhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6966-4_3

3. Basic Linux Administration via the Command Line

Jon Westfall1  
(1)
Cleveland, MS, USA
 

The Linux operating system was built to be an open source clone of a series of older operating systems, but primarily of Unix, a multiuser computer operating system that was built by AT&T during the 1970s. At that point in computer history, the desktop powerhouse that we have today was unknown – all computing took place on a central computer system that you would connect to using a “dumb” terminal, a keyboard and monitor that was connected to the central computer, either ...

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