[PLUG] Linux = Unix?

[Cooper Stevenson]

Source: O'Reilly's ``Essential System Administration,'' 2nd Edtion by
AEleen Frisch.

-Cooper

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:40, Brian Beattie wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:33, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Linux is a clone of Unix, but it has several key differences that make
> > it so exciting.
> > 
> > First, Linux combines the most popular features of the prior Unices and
> > melds them into a really usable system. I personally, for example, have
> > never really liked System V's printing commands, opting instead for the
> > BSD style.
> 
> System V rel 4 included most BSD features
> 
> > 
> > Second, Linux is totally open source. This makes it nary impossible for
> > any single vendor to take the code and run away with it.
> 
> Originly UNIX was delivered wit the source code and BSD is directly
> derived from AT&T UNIX and is open source.
> 
> > 
> > Third, Linux supports a wide variety of hardware platforms from Intel,
> > to Sparc, to PowerPC and others. This makes it possible to take a
> > program's source code from an Intel box and 
> > 
> 
> UNIX has run on a number of platforms, DEC PDP, Intel, MIPS, Alpha,
> Sparc, PowerPC.
> 
> > Finally, Linux is just cool; it supports most of the hardware available
> > for the x86 architecture, no small feat indeed.
> 
> so do flavors of UNIX.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > -Cooper
> > 
> > > 
> > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 07:48, Scott VanHoosen wrote:
> > > I've heard Linux called Unix, and I've heard it called a Linux-clone.
> > > Is Linux truly Unix? If not, how do you define Unix?
> > > 
> > > -Scott
> > > 
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