Whats the relationship between Unix and Linux?

Are they both different names refering to the same operating system?





And is it possible to run Unix as a 'virtual machine' (using VMware player) on Windows XP? How?

Whats the relationship between Unix and Linux?
Hi, Unix was an operating system developed in the late 60's.





Development of this system was discontinued as many people started to make their own operating systems based on Unix and the name Unix like operating system came.





So today Unix is a group of operating systems that all work in the same way, there r some differences but their behavior is the same.





In the Unix family comes Linux, BSD, and Darwin which is the core of Mac OS X. They r all Unix like operating systems.





The only remaining Unix system that is a direct descendant of the original Unix is BSD. Mac OS X which is Darwin and Linux r both Unix like operating systems. Since BSD is open source it can't be called true Unix either cause the original Unix was a proprietary operating system.





You can use Linux or BSD and even though they r different to a huge degree there isn't a huge learning curve between these Unix systems.





I hope I helped.





Good Luck!
Reply:Unix is a multi-user operating system where as Linux is single user. An Unix setup would be similar to having a Windows Server and a bunch of Thin Clients (i.e. dummy terminals that just access the server for the most part). Linux is pretty much like Windows. It is installed and runs on one local computer.





I don't know the answer to the second part of your question.
Reply:From Wikipedia this is a general explanation of their similarities and distinctions:





Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as Unix or Unix® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT%26amp;T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT%26amp;T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.





As of 2007, the owner of the trademark UNIX® is The Open Group, an industry standards consortium. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification qualify as "UNIX®" (others are called "Unix system-like" or "Unix-like").





During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the influence of Unix, in academic circles, led to large-scale adoption of Unix (particularly of the BSD variant, originating from the University of California, Berkeley) by commercial startups, the most notable of which is Sun Microsystems. Today, in addition to certified Unix systems, Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and BSD are commonly encountered. Sometimes, "traditional Unix" may be used to describe a Unix or an operating system that has the characteristics of either Version 7 Unix or UNIX System V.





Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix





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