When I was approached to write this book, I was initially asked to compose twelve chapters on the Linux system and modern administration. I now wish I'd agreed to that initial pitch, but instead I brazenly suggested a thirteenth chapter. What a fool I was.
So here we are, the ultimate chapter in this slog of a read (sorry, I'm so sorry), and it's all about the other systems in the computing world that you're going to need to know, because unfortunately, modern computing and IT infrastructure is frequently a hodgepodge of trends and antiques, in the form of Windows, Linux, and the mesh that goes in between.
We're going to look at the BSDs briefly, because they're probably the closest you can get to "real" Unix in this day and age, and they're also close enough to Linux that there's BSD users out there who get viscerally...