Good day, Ng and Brent,
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:46:36AM -0700, Brent Chapman wrote:
> > pages), it now covers Windows NT and Linux as well as UNIX, and it
>
> Et tu, Brent?
>
> What's the difference between Linux and UNIX?
(The following is my best understanding of the topic, but may not
be entirely correct)
Unix is a trademark, originally owned by AT&T, for it's operating
system. (I believe that trademark has been transferred to The Open
Group.)
Linux is an operating system that was written without any of the
original AT&T Unix source code. It looks and acts like Unix (it
generally follows the relevant POSIX standards), but does not
have the right to use that trademark.
Cheers,
- Bill
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