Did You Know? netcat is a unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It's designed to be a reliable back-end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it's a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. Netcat, or "nc" as the actual program is named, should have been supplied long ago as another one of those cryptic but standard Unix tools.
Microsoft Monday made an historic move by submitting device drivers to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Microsoft has had a checkered past with both Linux and its open source GPL licensing structure, so the move was a jaw dropper. Here is a look at some of the milestones since Microsoft internal memos leaked in 1998 that attacked the open source Linux operating system as it began to pick up steam as an alternative to Windows.
Did You Know? netcat is a unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It's designed to be a reliable back-end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it's a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. Netcat, or "nc" as the actual program is named, should have been supplied long ago as another one of those cryptic but standard Unix tools.
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