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picocom vs Samba

A side-by-side look at picocom and Samba. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

picocom

picocom

Os & Utilities

Picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program for Linux systems. It is useful for communicating with serial devices such as microcontrollers.

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Samba

Samba

Network & Admin

Samba is an open-source software suite that provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. It allows Linux/Unix servers to interoperate with Windows networks, acting as a file and print server for Microsoft Windows clients.

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