What is the full meaning of UNIX and LINUX?

Pls i need to know the full meaning of UNIX and LINUX if they are abbreviations. Thanks

What is the full meaning of UNIX and LINUX?
actually UNIX was called UNICS uniplexed information computing system then it changes 2 UNIX donno why...








LINUX is just a graphical user interface version of UNIX created by Linus Torvalds


therefore he combined the two 2 get





LINUX thts all


besides this main difference is tht UNIX is character user interface


LINUX is Graphic User Interface
Reply:Linux =%26gt; Linus Unix, kernel (heart) of linux distributions.





Unix =%26gt; an Operating System born in 1969.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Reply:UNIX: A precursor to LINUX





LINUX: An open soruce operating system sometimes called the best of the operating systems. Some linux based operating systems are: Linux, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, and many others.
Reply:AFAIK,





UNIX isn't an abbreviation.. It's an OS that's developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.





Linux also isn't an abbreviation, Linux might have come from it's kernel developer, Linus Torvalds, and the last letter "x" is from unix, since linux is UNIX based.