What is the difference between unix and linux?

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manish

  • Jan 17th, 2007
 

UNIX is CUI ( Character User Interface ) Whereas Linux is GUI ( Graphical User Interface ).

bingo

  • Feb 21st, 2007
 

according to me unix is character base and linux is graphical base.
information can be exchanged in the form of text in unix while in linux it can be exchanged in the form video,text,audio,animaion etc..

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Naveen Kumar

  • Mar 19th, 2007
 

UNIX and linux, both has GUI. They are different at their kernel level.
UNIX systems were created in 1970's by AT&T. The code was not open source and it was the most advance machine for software professionals.Inorder to get the open source version of UNIX, Linus torvald had created similar kernel to UNIX. This slowly got famous with name LINUX .. stands for LINus unIX(LINUX). Both of these OS has GUI.

In todays world, its only matter of which kernel is used. Is it Linus Torvalds or that of UNIX group itself and thats the point which decides which is that system, linux or unix.

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UNIX : An Operating System developed in olden days in which kernel interacts directly with the hardware. kernal is consider to be heart of this
OS. In this Operating system everything is considered as a file, provides greater security.

Ex: posix

Linux : Linux is an Operating system which use UNIX as its base and gives further more facilities and applications. Merely speaking GUI is made in
LINUX having UNIX as its core.
Ex: Redhat, Fedora, Susee, Mandrake

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AVINASH BANSAL

  • Oct 29th, 2011
 

unix i s created by AT&T BELL LABS AND MIT invited year in 1960's
linux is created by LINUS TORVALDS invited year in 1991
unix is not support processor Intel 386
linux is support processor Intel 386

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ilushka

  • Nov 3rd, 2011
 

Linux does not have to have a GUI. Unix is an OS built in the 60s and 70s at the Bell Labs and later it gave rise to many Unix-like, or *nix, operating systems. One example is Linux, kernel of which has been originally written by Linus Torvalds, hence the name Linus + Unix = Linux. It extends on a lot of ideas implemented in Unix but introduces a lot unique stuff as well.

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