<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Tony Baldwin <<a href="mailto:photodharma@gmail.com">photodharma@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Karl F. Larsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wounder how many of the Linux users today understand where our > operating system came from and why. In 1969 some VERY smart Bell > Laboratory young men were asked to write a operating system that will be > better than all that came before it. They invented the C programing > language and went to work designing Unix. We that use Linux are all > using a Unix operating system today. It is still the most stable and > simple system ever done. Now the people using Unix are worried about How > Unix is your computer? > > Now we hear people that argue that their Linux is better because it has > some feature not found in the other brands. We need to keep in mind that > we choose to use Unix because it is better even than the most popular > operating system in the world Windows. > > 73 Karl > </div>While they are related, in various ways, Linux is not unix. And of course, Gnu is Not Unix, either. Linux was "derived" from Minix, a mini-unix, by Linux et al., but is a distinct kernel. Take a look at this: <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_differences_between_Linux_and_Unix" target="_blank">http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_differences_between_Linux_and_Unix</a> /tony -- <a href="http://www.baldwinsoftware.com" target="_blank">http://www.baldwinsoftware.com</a> free/open source software tcl yer os with a feather... <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> thats true...you cant run unix software on linux w/o having to recompile it...some people come up and tell me that unix and linux are pretty much the same thing and i have to explain to them how they are actually different. --cj -- Registered linux user #402,916 (registered since 2007)