Unix Recovery Legend

Posted2 months agoActive2 months ago

rbanffy

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UnixSystem AdministrationComputing History

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Unix

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Computing History

The story shares a legendary Unix recovery technique, sparking nostalgia and appreciation for the resourcefulness of old-school system administrators among HN users.

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Nov 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM EDT
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davikr

2 months ago

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(1986)

i-con

2 months ago

I got to know UNIX (or rather Linux) about 12 years later. And TBH, I wasn't very impressed. I was like "oh, you have to do all that on the console". That's how green I was :D But then it caught me, and about a month later it was more "WOW, you can really do everything on the conole!"

What eventually helped me to really get into things was Linux From Scratch. If anyone wants to learn how a modern system works under the hood, and like those guys in the article know the very basic, minimal things that keep a system running, I can recommend it very much: https://linuxfromscratch.org/

hulitu

2 months ago

> Unix Recovery Legend

Page is unreadable. Gray on gray. Give me back my (VT100) terminal.

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