praneeth

• Feb 18th, 2006

 

Unix :

A 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 speeking GUI is made in linux having unix as its core.

Ex: Redhat, Fedora, Susee, Mandrake . . .

Solaris OS also using the same unix kernal all the unix commands will work on solaris and have 500 more solaris specific commands. Differnent organizations used the UNIX kernal and added their own essence to form their own version of linux.

Both UNIX and LINUX are Open source