Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-14 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2004-06-12T14:06:07+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: For more detail that you could possibly want about the descent of Unix, see: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Hi Matthew, Thanks for pointing out that interesting site. Cheers, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-13 Thread Richard Caley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grauwmans Steven (gs) writes: gs If U could please help me, I'm getting confused. Linux is a kernel, ie the bit of the OS which needs to be there, but you should never be aware of in normal use if it works properly. Unix is a trademark. There used to be an OS

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Grauwmans Steven wrote: Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX? I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I gave up. If U could please help me, I'm getting confused. Linux is a kernel. Fedora uses this kernel, and therefore is a Linux

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:06:49AM +0200, Grauwmans Steven wrote: Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX? I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I gave up. If U could please help me, I'm getting confused. Because FreeBSD code is derived

RE: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Lucas Holt
This is a hard one to answer. Most people disagree slightly on this question. It all depends on your perspective. If you go by companies that are allowed to use the UNIX copyright, then only IBM AIX and Sun Solaris are UNIX. If you go by the posix specification, then most operating systems can