nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke...
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A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily...
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Baccano! series Nice (mobile app), a photo-sharing app in China nice (Unix), a command found on UNIX and other POSIX-like operating systems NICE Ltd., a technology...
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kernel. Brain Fuck Scheduler Earliest deadline first scheduling (EDF) nice (Unix) SCHED_DEADLINE Erickson, Jeremy P.; Anderson, James H. (September 2,...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...
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The term "Research Unix" refers to early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed...
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for example by using non-blocking algorithms such as read-copy-update. Nice (Unix) Non-blocking synchronization Pre-emptive multitasking Glenn Reeves, What...
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database of quotations. Early versions of the program appeared in Version 7 Unix in 1979. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally...
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Top (software) (redirect from Top (UNIX))
of processes) is a task manager or system monitor program, found in many Unix-like operating systems, that displays information about CPU and memory utilization...
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In most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the ps (process status) program displays the currently-running processes. The related Unix utility top provides...
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Unix (disambiguation) Unix, whose plural is "unices" Unix-like, sometimes referred to as "unices" List of Unices, of Unix systems University of Nice Sophia...
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Signal (IPC) (redirect from Sigprocmask (Unix))
limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...
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Oracle Solaris (redirect from Solaris Unix)
Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle...
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known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer...
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List of GNU Core Utilities commands (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
from the GNU Core Utilities for Unix environments. These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems. GNU Core...
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Pstree (redirect from Pstree (Unix))
init or the process with the given pid. It can also be installed in other Unix systems. In BSD systems, a similar output is created using ps -d, in Linux...
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Device file (category Unix file system technology)
In Unix-like operating systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were...
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educational stripped-down version of Unix. In 1990, Torvalds resumed his university studies, and was exposed to Unix for the first time in the form of a...
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Ne (text editor) (redirect from Nice editor)
ne (for "nice editor") is a console text editor for POSIX computer operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. It uses the terminfo library, but it can...
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KornShell (category Unix shells)
KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial...
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Unix Specification, and should therefore be available in any POSIX-compliant operating system and compiler. For instance, this includes Unix and Unix-like...
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List of BSD operating systems (category Lightweight Unix-like systems)
a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants developed...
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little language originally intended for the comfort of non-programmers in the Unix environment (Bentley 1988). Pic was implemented using Yacc compiler-compiler...
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1996 when he proposed on Usenet a "consistent, nice looking free desktop environment" [sic] for Unix-like systems using Qt as its widget toolkit. On...
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Linux kernel (category Unix variants)
The Linux kernel is a free and open source,: 4 UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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is quick checking of the site's links. Lynx was originally designed for Unix-like operating systems. It was ported to VMS soon after its public release[citation...
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systems don't support unix_sequencenumber() and unix_bootnumber(). Rn, where n is (in hexadecimal) the output of the operating system's unix_cryptorandomnumber()...
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BusyBox (category Unix software)
BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux...
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is ^W, which is the shortcut to delete the previous word in the Berkeley Unix terminal line discipline. This shortcut has also made it into the insert...
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3rd party copyrighted library called XAD that is available for all POSIX (Unix, Linux, BSD, and for AmigaOS, MorphOS, etc.). This library is freely distributable...
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