Unix = Linux?

Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy.
This forum is not for asking programming related questions.

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
User avatar
potato
Forum Contributor
Posts: 192
Joined: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:30 am
Location: my lovely trailer, next to the big tree

Unix = Linux?

Post by potato »

Hey,

i want to make a hosting-directory, and i'm categorizing all the different packages.
Now sometimes i see unix, sometimes linux.

I'm confused here, is it the same, or is there a difference between them?

It's gonna be a search option: windows, linux, ?unix?, ?maybe more?

somebody knows more about this?

greetings,
tom
User avatar
feyd
Neighborhood Spidermoddy
Posts: 31559
Joined: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:24 pm
Location: Bothell, Washington, USA

Post by feyd »

According to "official" sources, Linux is not Unix. Certified Unix that is. It derives from and owes a lot of heritage to Unix however. To most people, Linux is Unix. So I think your place is to base it on what your user-base will see it as.
User avatar
Kieran Huggins
DevNet Master
Posts: 3635
Joined: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:14 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Contact:

Post by Kieran Huggins »

Some people are picky about their hosting distro, so definitely keep that info so people can search/sort by it.
User avatar
potato
Forum Contributor
Posts: 192
Joined: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:30 am
Location: my lovely trailer, next to the big tree

Post by potato »

ok, thanx
User avatar
Chris Corbyn
Breakbeat Nuttzer
Posts: 13098
Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:57 am
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Post by Chris Corbyn »

To most people, yes UNIX and Linux behave the same. But, when you get down to the nitty-gritty (at a kernel level), UNIX is most certainly not linux. Kernel modules made for Linux won't work under UNIX for example.
timvw
DevNet Master
Posts: 4897
Joined: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:11 pm
Location: Leuven, Belgium

Re: Unix = Linux?

Post by timvw »

Start with looking up what the acronym linux means...

Linux Is Not UniX
User avatar
Chris Corbyn
Breakbeat Nuttzer
Posts: 13098
Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:57 am
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Post by Chris Corbyn »

I so totally never clocked that one 8O I always just assumed it was a spin on the creator's name. Doh!
User avatar
dude81
Forum Regular
Posts: 509
Joined: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:26 am
Location: Pearls City

Post by dude81 »

Unix is one of the starting operating systems designed by Ken thompson, Dennis Ritchie (Author of C-Language) during 60s-1970s, parallely developed with C, or infact C is developed on Unix or Unix is developed from C(vice versa). Today any OS which operates are based on Unix and a bit of innoviations on it. Unix has networking feature very early stages itself. Unix has much more features than Linux and is not open source.

Linux is a unix like operating system, but not Unix.
User avatar
Chris Corbyn
Breakbeat Nuttzer
Posts: 13098
Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:57 am
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Post by Chris Corbyn »

Indeed... even DOS was stolen from an early UNIX.

Some reading about the history of linux:
http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-the-big-picture.html
User avatar
dude81
Forum Regular
Posts: 509
Joined: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:26 am
Location: Pearls City

Post by dude81 »

yup , I even heard that. mkdir command is one example. Same in both
User avatar
Jenk
DevNet Master
Posts: 3587
Joined: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:24 am
Location: London

Re: Unix = Linux?

Post by Jenk »

timvw wrote:Start with looking up what the acronym linux means...

Linux Is Not UniX
It was originally a play on the lead author's name.. Linus (Torvalds).

and if you ever want to solve the "How do you pronounce Linux?" argument: here is the man himself.
User avatar
Chris Corbyn
Breakbeat Nuttzer
Posts: 13098
Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:57 am
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Post by Chris Corbyn »

http://www.computerhope.com/history/unix.htm

This is interesting. In 1991, Linus Torvalds apparently posted to a minix newsgroup the following:
The man himself wrote:Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Famous last words :)
User avatar
Christopher
Site Administrator
Posts: 13596
Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:54 pm
Location: New York, NY, US

Post by Christopher »

- Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, UnixWare are Unix in the general use of the term.

- Only AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, UnixWare are Registered Unix which means they have a license from the Open Group.

- OpenBSD and FreeBSD are not Registered Unix, but share common code from the original Unix.

- Linux is both not Registered Unix and does not share common code.


http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/single ... ation.html

http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/flavors_of_unix.html

Image
(#10850)
Post Reply