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generic_

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From: Jacksonville,FL US

Registered: 2008-12-21

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Differene between Unix and Linux

What is the difference be tween Unix and Linux? From what i understand Linux is very "Unix Like" and is free and that unix is not free.(i think?) I her the BSD is more like unix that linux. Well what is UNix exactly? Is it still being developed? I never hear about the next version of unix coming out. Ive heard of HP-UX and solaris which is supposed to be very unix-like and OSX another unix based operating system/ But what is just plain unix? Where do you even buy it?

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Stythys

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

here you go: http://tinyurl.com/dfcylo

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generic_

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From: Jacksonville,FL US

Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

Seriously im getting fucking sick of that site! I asked this because I want wanted the opinion of REAL people. You think i don't know how to goggle? Excuse me for my language but sometimes goggle is not that interactive so thats why I came here. The get a real answer.

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dolby

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

Its been asked before. Search the forum.

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generic_

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From: Jacksonville,FL US

Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

I already did none really portray to my question. They just reiterate stuff I already know.

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dannytatom

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From: Seattle, WA

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

Seriously im getting fucking sick of that site!.

Not to be rude, but I think the fact that you see it enough to be fucking sick of it should show that maybe you do too much asking and not enough searching.

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klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

Also... stating that a perfectly reasonable reply makes you fucking sick is not likely to invite many more perfectly reasonable replies. Quite the contrary, i expect...
If you want good discussion, don't flame the first person that tries to be helpfull.

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PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

Not really what you asked for but I think you might find it interesting anyway: BSD for Linux users

szymon_g

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Registered: 2008-11-24

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

1. define "unix": is it (open)solaris, *bsd or something different (hp-ux, plan 9, minix)
2. most unices have got different userland programs than linux (well... definatly not most of programs), like e.g. coreutils, and packages intallation differs from those in linux (well... on the other hand rpm5 is universal, also tar.gz are quite universal)

of course, depends from which unix you are talking about differences can be bigger- but you would have to specify both linux distro and unix version.

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Differene between Unix and Linux

Thread dead...

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