What is unix?

some body says Linux is a new varsion of Unix. Is this is right

What is unix?
Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s 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.





The present 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").





Widely used Unix commands include:





Directory and file creation and navigation: ls cd pwd mkdir rm rmdir cp find touch


File viewing and editing: more less ed vi emacs head tail


Text processing: echo cat grep sort uniq sed awk cut tr split printf


File comparison: comm cmp diff patch


Miscellaneous shell tools: yes test xargs


System administration: chmod chown ps su w who


Communication: mail telnet ftp finger ssh





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Reply:unix is an good operating system fore mechine software. linux is free soft ware and based on unix and not a version
Reply:Linux and unix are pretty much the same, linux is ran on pc's typically, and regular unix like aix or hp-ux is ran on servers. There are workstations for sun, sgi which use unix. Linux is unix reverse-engineered to an extent.
Reply:unix is CUI(CHARACTER USER INTERFACE) MODE OPERATING SYSTEM WHILE LINUX IS OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEM HAVING A HIGH QUALITY GUI (GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ) MODE.


BOTH OF THEM ARE BASED ON COMMAND LINE BUT IN LINUX HANDLING IS LITTLE BIT EASY AS COMPARED TO UNIX.


FOR OPERATING UNIX YOU HAVE TO LEARN SHELL PROGRAMMING.


UNIX IS THE ONLY OPERATING SYSTEM WHICH CAN WORK


FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS CONTINUOUSLY WITHOUT ST OPING.


TH ATS WHY THESE ARE PREFERRED IN NASA AND OTHER SPACE AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTRES.BEING A CUI UNIX IS VERY VERY FASTER THEN LINUX.


AND MIND IT BOTH LINUX AND UNIX ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER
Reply:Operating System
Reply:Linux is not Unix (thats what the name says )





anyway Unix is just another operating system, created by Bell Labs. It is very famous in the industry and considered very stable for huge distributed operations.





Linux though looks similar to Unix but is entirely a new Operating System, written from scratch and is loosely based on Minix.
Reply:Yes.





Linux is a "free" or "open source" version of Unix.





Unix is a computer Operating System, just like Mac OS and Windows (98, XP, Vista).





There is not as much software available for Linux / Unix as there is for Windows, so it is not as popular. But it is free, so if it will work for your situation, it is worth considering.
Reply:Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s 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.





The present 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, Unix's influence in academic circles led to large-scale adoption (particularly of the BSD variant, originating from the University of California, Berkeley) of Unix 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, Mac OS X and BSD derivatives 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.
Reply:Unix is an operating system like Microsoft windows or Mac OS X. Actually it is considered a whole family of operating systems. Some of the Unix (-like) operating systems include Linux, BSD, SCO, and AIX.





It also refers to the original Unix operating System developed at Bell Labs in the 60's and 70's. Modern *nixes are derivatives of this.





Unix can run with either a command prompt or a GUI. It is most used on servers rather than home computers.
Reply:Unix is a command base Operating system like MS-DOS, Linux is the user interface(GUI) version like MS Windows.

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