Question: What Is Unix and Linux?
Contents How Is Unix Different from Linux? Linux Is a Unix Clone. but If You Consider Portable Operating System Interface (Posix) Standards Then Linux Can Be...
How is Unix different from Linux?
Linux is a UNIX Clone.
But if you consider Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) standards then Linux can be considered as UNIX.
To quote from Official Linux kernel README file: Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.
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Is Linux a version of Unix?
Linux has been termed as Unix-like, a term which means an operating system that resembles a Unix system. It may not qualify as one or be certified to any particular version of the Single Unix Specification. Linux is also a kernel designed by Torvalds.
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