Unix V/S Linux
Let’s Look at UNIX vs. Linux and see what are the differences. But before we get into finding the differences we'll find out what UNIX is.
Unix was first developed for multi-user and multi-tasking in the mid-1970s in Bell Labs by ATT, GE, and Massachusetts institute of technology. There was an operating system but it was not allowing for multi-users or multitasking. So what was one of the purposes for creating that then born Linux in 1991 by Abdoun named Linus Torvalds Linux is mostly free and Linux is open source. So what Linux free means is you could install the Linux operating system in any of your computer hardware.
There are a few Linux distribution that is not free like Redhat where you would have to pay for support and subscription and open source means that Linux code that was derived from Unix is actually open to the public to the community so they can go in and make changes to their code and make the operating system they want it to work in their way.
UNIX is mostly used by the sun and the operating system is called Solaris. By the way, the sun is now bought by Oracle, and also other operating systems that are Unix is used as HP-UX by hp, AIX, and some other distributions of Unix. Linux is used mostly by developer communities or companies like Redhat, Central west Debian, Fedora, Susie, Ubuntu and there are so many of them. Even if you go out to search for linux distributions you will find so many of them.
Unix comparatively supports and very few are a file system. Now, what is File System? That is something that we will cover later. But there is a fewer file system supported by UNIX operating system and a lot more file systems that are supported in Linux flavors.
Linux can be installed on a variety of computer hardware ranging from mobile homes tablet video games console to mainframe and supercomputers are just like you cannot install a Mac operating system on a Dell machine. You have to install the Mac operating system on Mac hardware just like that. UNIX is only installed on certain hardware as Linux you could install pretty much on every hardware that is out there running AMD or Intel processor. So these are the few basics about Unix and Linux
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