On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:57:35PM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > > What's the big diff betw > > Unix and Linux anyway? > > I suppose that's mostly snobbery on my part. These days there's > probably as much difference between, say, Sun Solaris and IBM AIX as > there is between Linux and either of them. It's just Linux can't trace > a direct heritage back through SysV Rel 3, 4.2BSD, and Version 7. Not > that there's much common code left anymore. Right now, Linux seems to > have more "mindshare" than all the Unices put together, and gaining. > For a nostalgic old guy like me that's a little sad.
There's also a good legal reason for it. 'UNIX' is trademarked, and the major vendors have to license it and the codebase (SVR4 plus some BSD stuff). Neither Linux nor the various 'free' BSDs can call themselves UNIX because of this (and they have their own, separate codebases). People sometimes say un*x because even using the term UNIX might violate the trademark in some circumstances. >From a functional and interface viewpoint, Linux and the Unices are similar; some 'UNIX' OSs are more different from eachother than Linux is from the SVR4 standard (eg. AIX). -James -- James Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
