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Unix at 40: Hanging on Despite Strong Linux, Windows challenges

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Hey XDA users!

i was wondering if there is any way in the terminal to make the crt of screen instead of going down from the top and bottom to the middle to make it fade off ?

is it possible to do that through terminal emulator in the mobile phone?

You'd be lying if you said you'd never tried FarmVille. Well, theoretically you could claim to be one of the few that has yet to try FarmVille, but with over 80 million users you're probably lying.

Is there a way to disable the screen fade which happens when a gui application asks for the users password (i.e. when gksudo is used i believe).For example, when starting synaptic most of the time. I find it annoying, and it doesn't fade cleanly on my system, so i'd prefer just not to have it. But my google-fu is weak.

I'm learning off Linux (Ubuntu) right now. I want to move up to Unix, but I don't want to rush like I did when it came to Windows --> to Linux. What is the best Unix OS that fits in pretty well with Ubuntu.

In other words is there kind of an equal Linux with Unix?

Also what do I need to really know about Unix?

We are very familiar with Linux and its relation with UNIX.But most us of don’t actually know what are differences between the two. Linux is called Unix-like and is not a true Unix operating system.Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

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I often wondered, why DOS became so succesful on the first PCs as it's less flexible and scalable than UNIX systems and UNIX has been broadly used before the existence of DOS.

Important Unix Commands That You Should Know By Bernard Peh Unix is one of the most important operating system today. Its powerful features, scalability, strong security, and support for multiple users have made it the top choice operating systems for server, workstations and mainframes. It is good to have some knowledge of Unix commands especially if your web host is Unix/Linux based.