UNIX

UNIX Operating System Services

UNIX Operating System Services Unix is a popular multi-user, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Labs in early 1970s and it was one of the first operating systems to be written in a high level programming language C. So it can be installed virtually on any computer which has a C compiler and this natural portability made it as a popular choice. Similar to Microsoft Windows, UNIX systems also have a graphical user interface (GUI) which provides an easy to use environment. But knowledge of UNIX is required for operations which aren’t covered by a graphical program or for when there is no windows interface available as in a telnet session.

There are different versions of UNIX, although they share common similarities and most popular varieties of UNIX are Sun Solaris, GNU/Linux and MacOS X. In Web hosting, thousands of visitors are being served simultaneously and for this reason UNIX hosting is the right choice for most of the governmental, educational and Internet organizations.

Advantages of UNIX Operating System made available for you by Engineers at Quintet

Quintet offers support for different types of Linux hosting, Dedicated server hosting, Shared server hosting and VPS hosting. Because of its power, portability and flexibility UNIX has become a leading operating system for workstations and we can help you get UNIX environment setup. Today, the trademarked “Unix” and the “Single UNIX Specification” interface are owned by The Open Group. Servers running on UNIX have extremely high uptime and high availability & reliability. Web sites designed to be served under a UNIX-based web server can easily be hosted on a Windows server.

  • Unix is more stable and it requires less administration and maintenance hence it will save lot of time and staff assistance.
  • Unix has permissions features and greater built-in security than Windows and it possesses much greater processing power than Windows. Hence you are safe and secure.
  • Unix operating systems is running Apache which is the world’s most widely used and free Web server.
  • The mostly free or inexpensive open-source operating systems, such as BSD and Linux has flexibility and control. Quintet helps you in installation and configuration ensuring smooth running of your system.
  • Unix has novel approaches to software design like solving problems by interconnecting simpler tools instead of creating large monolithic application programs. Quintet highly recommends Unix Operating Systems for you.

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