what's the difference between Unix and Linux?

Zech Marquis

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:12 PM
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what's the difference between Unix and Linux?

Here's a good question for thee DU computer people--exactly what is the difference beween Unix and Linux? From what I can tell, Kinux is a clone of Unix, which was made without any copyright code from AT and T (who developed Unix way back in the 1960s) Is it mainly th Linux kernel as well?

I'm asking about this because I'm hearing rumors about the next version of mac OS X maybe..maybe doing something with Linux. Any thoughts about this?

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mike_c

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:16 PM
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1. Linux is an OS kernel that provides many (most) of the same...

Edited on Sat Apr-10-04 07:22 PM by mike_c

...services as proprietary "unices." With the Free Software Foundation tools and the HUGE variety of open source applications available, OSF/Linux provides a free alternative that most Unix users can migrate to with relatively little learning overhead.

on edit: I don't know diddley about Mac OS's, but my understanding is that OS X is built on top of FreeBSD or another of the BSD variants. These are also free Unix "clones" which support OSF tools and are code compatible with MANY Linux apps. I don't have any idea how easy it is to actually get past the OS X GUI to do someting useful like invoke gcc, however.

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Florida_Geek

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:23 PM
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3. Download the X11 package for Mac and

then you can run any Unix program you want. :) Just get the PowerPC binary :)

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mike_c

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:29 PM
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6. thanks for the info, but I prefer machines that I can build myself....

And I really dislike Apple's GUI. I'm still pretty much a command line kinda guy.

cat 'mike_c' > /dev/null

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Florida_Geek

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:42 PM
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8. that is what nice about OS X

you can open a telnet session and do all the UNIX chmods that you want :eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes:

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Zech Marquis

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:24 PM
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4. BSD Unix

right, OS X uses Free BSD. It has both a terminal app where you can use command lines to access Unix commmands and functions, an there's a few other ways to work with the *nix stuff as well. X11, emacs, even running Unix apps iside Os X like a native app...

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Feanorcurufinwe

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:21 PM
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2. u li

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ret5hd

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:30 PM
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7. or, as we'd say in the *nix world...

Edited on Sat Apr-10-04 07:31 PM by ret5hd

s/u/li/g

or

s/li/u/g

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Florida_Geek

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Sat Apr-10-04 07:24 PM
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5. UNIX is a commerial package and Linux is not

But from a user's point of view they are the same.

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