What Came First Unix or Linux?
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UNIX came first. UNIX came way first. It was developed back in 1969 by AT&T employees working at Bell Labs. Linux came about in either 1983 or 1984 or 1991, depending upon who’s holding the knife.

Did Linux come from UNIX?

Linux is a Unix-Like Operating System developed by Linus Torvalds and thousands of others. BSD is a UNIX operating system that for legal reasons must be called Unix-Like. OS X is a graphical UNIX Operating System developed by Apple Inc. Linux is the most prominent example of a “real” Unix OS.

What came before Linux?

Two of them are: Slackware: One of the earliest Linux distros, Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Slackware is based on SLS and was one of the very first Linux distributions. Debian: An initiative by Ian Murdock, Debian was also released in 1993 after moving on from the SLS model.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

Automotive & Future Transportation Editor

Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.

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