{"id":220749,"date":"2026-03-06T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:30:11","slug":"this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"This book taught me 6 must-know facts about Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/\">This book taught me 6 must-know facts about Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 12:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Art of Unix Programming (TAoUP), by Eric S. Raymond, is not a tutorial or how-to book. Instead, it is a book about the history and philosophy of Unix. But no other book has had a greater influence on my approach to Linux and macOS, or my everyday use of it. Here are just a few of the things it has taught me.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"unix-is-even-older-than-you-think\">\n                        Unix is even older than you think<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to know the full history of Unix to use it\u2014or Linux, or macOS\u2014today. But knowing a bit about how Unix originated cannot hurt. Understanding the context of the OS helps you understand the screen you&#8217;re looking at, and history can answer many of your initial questions, like \u201cWhy are command names so short?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second chapter\u2014\u201cHistory: A Tale of Two Cultures\u201d\u2014explains how Unix began in 1969, on teletype machines that looked like glorified typewriters. It\u2019s amazing to think that these machines still have something in common with many of the servers that power our lives online.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teletype Model 33 ASR.wmv\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObgXrIYKQjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, it\u2019s fine to think of Linux as a Unix clone, which it essentially is. But that history is far longer and richer than it may seem, and I take pride in using a system with fifty-year-old roots, even in the face of every technological advance since then.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"open-source-would-be-nothing-without-linux\">\n                        Open source would be nothing without Linux<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>TAoUP goes on to cover the birth of Linux and how Linus Torvald\u2019s approach was a compromise between proprietary, locked-down systems and the ideological freedom that the burgeoning open-source movement lived by.<\/p>\n<p>The open-source movement is so vital to Linux\u2019s story, that it\u2019s easy to consider them one and the same. But it\u2019s fascinating to find out more about the history of open-source and how it compares with the proprietary approach or the GNU alternative (\u201cfree software\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>As far back as the 1950s, engineers were sharing source code, reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book taught me 6 must-know facts about Linux https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-book-taught-me-6-must-know-facts-about-linux\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-06 12:01:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/featured-image-3.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-220749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220751,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220749\/revisions\/220751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}