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- 18:56, 20 August 2023 Novell (hist | edit) [84 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} Novell, creators of NetWare and owner of SuSe Linux. {{footer}}")
- 18:56, 20 August 2023 HP-UX (hist | edit) [62 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} HP-UX is HP's variant of Unix. {{footer}}")
- 18:56, 20 August 2023 HP (hist | edit) [243 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} HP, whose full name is '''''H'''ewlett-'''P'''ackard Development Company, L.P.'', is a major player in the server, workstation and end-user computer market. They also have their own variant of Unix called HP-UX. {{footer}}")
- 18:55, 20 August 2023 IRIX (hist | edit) [54 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} SGI's version of Unix. {{footer}}")
- 18:54, 20 August 2023 SGI (hist | edit) [272 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} Formerly ''Silicon Graphics, Inc.'', now known as simple '''SGI'''. They provide high-end workstations and servers, most often to customers running graphically intensive applications. They also offer their own variant on Unix known as IRIX. {{footer}}")
- 18:52, 20 August 2023 AIX (hist | edit) [181 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} AIX is IBM's flavour of Unix. It is falling out of favour within IBM as it shifts it's focus to Linux. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX {{footer}}")
- 18:52, 20 August 2023 IBM (hist | edit) [218 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} '''IBM''', which is short for '''''I'''nternational '''B'''usiness '''M'''achines'', is a vendor of AIX Unix and business-grade computer equipment. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibm {{footer}}")
- 18:51, 20 August 2023 UNIX (hist | edit) [722 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} Unix is the oldest operating system still in use today. The term "Unix" is often used to describe POSIX compliant operating systems in general. There are several commercial Unix variants like IBM's AIX, SGI's IRIX and HP's HP-UX. Currently there is a dispute between Novell and SCO as to who owns the Unix source code. There are several open source derivatives based on BSD Unix like FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD...")
- 18:49, 20 August 2023 Fedora (hist | edit) [97 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} Fedora Core is a community driven, Red Hat-guided Linux distribution. {{footer}}")
- 18:48, 20 August 2023 Red Hat (hist | edit) [225 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} Red Hat is a brand of IBM and the developer of a popular commercial Linux distribution called 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' and manages the fully open-source, community driven Fedora distribution. {{footer}}") originally created as "Redhat"
- 18:45, 20 August 2023 OS (hist | edit) [320 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} An operating system is a piece of software that runs on a given hardware platform and allows supporting programs to be run on it. Linux, UNIX (of which there are several flavours), Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS X are some common modern-days examples of operating systems. {{footer}}")
- 18:45, 20 August 2023 POSIX (hist | edit) [160 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} '''POSIX''' is an acronym for '''''P'''ortable '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem '''I'''nterface''. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX {{footer}}")
- 18:44, 20 August 2023 Linux (hist | edit) [349 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} Linux is a POSIX compliant open-source operating system created by Linux Torvalds. It is currently developed by a very large number of developers and forms the foundation for many Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and Fedora Core, among '''many''' others. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux {{footer}}")
- 18:43, 20 August 2023 ISO (hist | edit) [861 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} '''ISO''' is an acronym for '''I'''nternational '''O'''rganization for '''S'''tandardization. In computing, '''ISO''' is most often used to describe the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 ISO 9660] standard describing data storage on optical media like CD and DVD disks. In turn, the term "iso file" usually describes an archive designed to be written to an optical disk. Some operating systems, like Linux, allow for these archives to be "mounted" and th...")
- 18:38, 20 August 2023 Md5sum (hist | edit) [573 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} The program "md5sum" takes a file as an input for an 128-bit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 MD5] calculation. In the context of Anvil! clusters, md5sum hashes can be used to confirm that the file stored in the cluster is byte-for-byte identical to the source the file was originally downloaded from or created. The Anvil! displays the md5sum's hash in the file browser so that you can confirm that the file matches what you expected. It's also used...")
- 18:27, 16 August 2023 APC (hist | edit) [248 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} '''A'''merican '''P'''ower '''C'''onversion, or "[https://apc.com APC]", is a brand owned by the company [Schneider Electric https://www.se.com/]. Their UPSes and switched PDUs are often used in Anvil! Clusters. {{footer}}")
- 03:19, 16 August 2023 MAC (hist | edit) [474 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} MAC is an acronym for '''M'''edia '''A'''ccess '''C'''ontrol. This is a 32 bit hexadecimal identifying string that is unique to every network device. This address is used in networking for locating a device when it does not have an IP address. MAC addresses are not routeable, thus, MAC addresses are only useful on the subnet the device is on. For more information, please see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address wikipedia] entry. {{footer}}")
- 02:56, 16 August 2023 What is an Anvil! and why do I care? (hist | edit) [138,456 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{howto_header}} The most basic answer to this question is; * An ''Anvil!'' is one of the most resilient platforms for running servers on. If you have a server that, if it failed, would really hurt, you probably want to put it on an ''Anvil!'' system. Now, the longer answer. = Overview = The Anvil! platform is an Intelligent Availability platform. This means it has the following core features; * It proactively protects hosted servers. It predicts failures where...")
- 02:55, 16 August 2023 Bit (hist | edit) [128 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} A 'Bit' is a single Base-2 'BInary DigiT'; 0 or 1. See 'Binary' for more information. {{footer}}")
- 02:54, 16 August 2023 ECC (hist | edit) [500 bytes] Digimer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{header}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-correcting_code Error correcting code] is a mechanism for transmitting additional, redundant data that allows for the detection of errors. In most cases, ECC allows the automatic correction of single-byte errors without requiring the corrupted data being retransmitted. It is often found in enterprise-grade memory, often referred to as "ECC RAM". The same technology is used in many different system components, like sto...")