Windows 8 In Depth

Internetworking with UNIX and Linux

The UNIX operating system, originally developed in the 1970s at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories as a platform for internal software development and as a “workbench” for programmers, is still evolving and growing. Today, hundreds of millions of people use UNIX or UNIX-like OSs every day, sometimes without even knowing it, on everything from iMacs to Androids, laptops to mainframes, routers to space probes, and... well, the list goes on and on.

This section looks at ways to network Windows 8 with UNIX-type OSs. Although many of the examples involve Linux, most of the examples can be translated to almost any UNIX-type OS. And because typing “UNIX-like” is already getting tiresome, from here on, we sometimes write just ...