Monday, November 10, 2008

UNIX Vs LINUX




UNIX:

Unix is a  popular operating system.There are two "main" flavors, BSD, and System V. System V is what AT&T developed in 1969, nurtured and sold to people. BSD is the unix that came from Berkeley University.We people have generally interaction with System V unix.
It is a multi-processing, multi-user, family of operating systems that run on a variety of architechtures. UNIX allows more than one user to access a computer system at the same time.
It is the OS 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.Linux was first released by its inventor Linus Torvalds in 1991. Combining the Linux kernel with the GNU software forms the basis of the operating system family generally known as 'Linux'.

Merely speeking GUI is made in linux having unix as its core.Differnent organizations used the UNIX kernal and added their own essence to form their own version of linux.

Ex: Redhat, Fedora, Solaris,AIX,Ubuntu,Susee, Mandrake . .

Both UNIX and LINUX are Open source           ...............Lipak


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you still think open source os is the best way to go in this decade with the new anon os?