• getty, short for "get tty", is a Unix program running on a host computer that manages physical or virtual terminals (TTYs). When it detects a connection...
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  • Getty may refer to: Getty family George Getty (1855–1930), American lawyer and father of J. Paul Getty J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), wealthy American industrialist...
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    X Window System (category Unix windowing system-related software)
    (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts...
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  • from UNIX gurus past and present. These include: Ken Arnold (author of curses and co-author of Rogue) Steve Bellovin Stuart Feldman Jim Gettys Stephen...
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    different one via telnet, ssh, dial-up, or over a direct serial connection. On Unix-like operating systems, it is common to have one or more terminal windows...
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    Init (category Unix process- and task-management-related software)
    systemd, Runit and OpenRC. Research Unix init runs the initialization shell script located at /etc/rc, then launches getty on terminals under the control of...
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    to various other operating systems. Official ports are available for some Unix-like platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and macOS,...
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  • W Window System (category Unix stubs)
    operating system. In 1983, Paul Asente and Chris Kent ported the system to UNIX on the VS100, giving a copy to those working at MIT's Laboratory for Computer...
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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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  • Temporary File System) is a temporary file storage paradigm implemented in many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system...
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    capability of computers grew, Unix became increasingly cluttered with code. It is also because the modularity of the Unix kernel is extensively scalable...
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  • and the Single Unix Specification. It is a historical development from the terminal interfaces of BSD version 4 and Seventh Edition Unix. A multiplicity...
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    emulator for the VAXStation 100 (VS100) by Mark Vandevoorde, a student of Jim Gettys, in the summer of 1984, when work on X started. It rapidly became clear...
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    TENEX operating system for the PDP-10, and Unix, which inherited the concept of process forking from it. Unix co-creator Ken Thompson worked on Project...
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    condition, the DM realizes in the X Window System the functionality of getty and login on character-mode terminals. When the display manager runs on...
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  • in his home directory. The original version of xrdb was written by Jim Gettys and later rewritten by Bob Scheifler and Phil Karlton. X resources X Window...
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    19, 2003). "Origins and History of Unix, 1969–1995". Fiedler, Ryan (October 1983). "The Unix Tutorial / Part 3: Unix in the Microcomputer Marketplace"...
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    tools and libraries, documentation, IP network configuration utilities, the getty TTY setup program, and many more. To provide a desktop experience (most...
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  • connection. Bob Scheifler and Jim Gettys set out the early principles of X as follows (as listed in Scheifler/Gettys 1996): Do not add new functionality...
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    founder of the Free Software Foundation, set forth plans of a complete Unix-like operating system, called GNU, composed entirely of free software. In...
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  • make, authored Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created Unix Lex Fridman – Artificial Intelligence Podcast now the Lex Fridmen Podcast...
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    events from a single event loop, with system calls like poll and select (Unix). Multiple variable bit rate digital bit streams may be transferred efficiently...
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    line Vundo, a trojan that attaches itself to winlogon.exe getty, a similar process in UNIX In the Windows XP Source code leak in September 2020, Winlogon...
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    work with Ubuntu Ubuntu Gamer, January 10, 2011 (Article by Luke Benstead) "Unix Drivers". Archived from the original on December 17, 2020. Retrieved August...
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    was first publicly released in September 1985, is used in GUIs for many Unix-like operating systems. A re-implementation of Xlib was introduced in 2007...
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    computer, or restart the X Window System. Free and open-source software portal getty – a non-graphical login program Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM), successor...
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    October 2023. In 1986 some programmers created a list of color names for a unix system known as X11. Having no background in color theory, they placed indigo...
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  • └─┬──┘ └────┬─────────────┘ scheme path news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix └┬─┘ └─────────────┬─────────────────┘ scheme path tel:+1-816-555-1212 └┬┘...
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    50th President of Bolivia (b. 1920) June 6 J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil (b. 1892) David Jacobs, Welsh Olympic athlete (b...
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    Polipo (category Unix network-related software)
    November 2015. "The Polipo Manual". Retrieved 23 September 2010. Fielding, R.; Gettys, J.; Mogul, J.; Frystyk, H.; Berners-Lee, T. (1997). "rfc2068 - HTTP/1.1"...
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