In most Unix and Unix-like systems, there are two kinds of "link". One is a "symbolic (or soft) link", and the other is a "hard link". Both of them are ways of pointing to a file or program that's in some other location in the file system than where it appears to be. (Another way to think of them is as "shortcuts".)A symbolic link can point to any location known to the system, whether it's physically part of the same file system or not. Hard links are generally limited to pointing to files within the same file system.
Unix systems may be affected by viruses .. see related link.
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The not-for-profit Open Systems Foundation was created in 1988 to attempt an open standard for Unix. See related link for more information.
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Several different versions of UNIX have GUI's or Graphical User Interfaces. The most common example of UNIX with an interface is Mac OS X.
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