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This chapter’s intention is to give you an idea about what operating systems in general, and Unix/Linux in particular, are. It is not absolutely necessary to know all this. However, since you are going to work with these operating systems you are taking part in their history! I feel that you should have heard of (and learned to appreciate) the outline of this history. Furthermore, it gives you some background on the system we are going to restrain; but if you are hungry for practice you might prefer to jump immediately to Chapter 3 on page 27.
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Wünschiers, R. (2004). Unix/Linux. In: Computational Biology —. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18552-6_2
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