Looking for more Unix Linux

Maximilian Gerlach m at px0.de
Tue Aug 16 07:35:26 UTC 2005


Am Dienstag, den 16.08.2005, 09:17 +0200 schrieb Christoph Georgi:
> might look like a stupid question, but i still didn't quite get what
> exactly is the difference of unix operating systems and linux.. i got as
> far as unix being a mere specification of an os, and i suppose that *bsd
> fulfills the requirements of this specification, hence, unix-derivat,
> but what then is linux?! a unix-clone...?(and what would that be?)
Linux is, just as the BSDs a "UNIX like Operating System". That means
that it (more or less, but all in all it does) fulfill this
specification but it didn't officially certify to it (because it costs
very much).
So Linux is essentially UNIX but isn't allowed to be called so because
it didn't buy that certificate...

Maxi





More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list