UNIX was created in 1969 by Ken Thompson, Brain Khernighan, and Dennis Ritchie, who at that time were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories.
Linux was created in 1991 by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds, just for fun, and is based around the designs of Unix as it had evolved from 1969 to around that year. Fun factoid, around 1991 a lot of Unix researchers were actually experimenting with microkernel designs, so Linus wasn't entirely following the bleeding edge Unix trends of the time when he created the Linux kernel.
No, but Linux is based on Unix since Linux is a Unix clone.
Linux is an open system, Unix is not.
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what are similarities and differences between linux and unix?
Linux and Unix do have their share of malware, though there are fewer of them.
No, it is unix-based but Linux is a kernel not an operating system.Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Debian,and puppy Linux,ect. are OS's that use the Linux kernel.
Because Linux evolved from UNIX, but Windows evolved from DOS.
Linux, Minix, Coherent, FreeBSD, etc. These are all clones of Unix
No, Linux IS Unix, so the question makes no sense. Unix is a general term for a class of operating systems. Linux is also a term applied to more than one operating system variant, but all Linux OS are Unix OS. Redhat is one type of Linux. BSD is a type of Unix that is not Linux.
Linux is a Unix-like system. This means that it is inspired or influenced by Unix in some shape or form (Linux started off from Minix), but it is not directly derived from Unix. However, BSD is based on Unix, and macOS is indirectly Unix-based because of its mixed heritage with BSD.
Linux hosting and Unix hosting are not exactly the same thing. Linux hosting and Unix hosting refer to the software operating system employed by the servers of the host. The primary communication being made when a server is described as Unix or Linux is that it is not a Microsoft product. Unix comes in several proprietary versions, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) and AT&T are two well known commercial versions of Unix. They own and control intellectual property associated with Unix. Linux is a nonproprietary version of Unix. There are many flavors of this. All are "open source." The intellectual property is controlled by one of the various open source models, GPL being the most well know. If a person says they have a Unix server, they may or may not mean the proprietary version of Unix. For many people, unix is a generic reference and can mean Unix or Linux. If a person says they have a Linux server, then it is a Linux operating system. It may be one of over a hundred different types of Linux, but it is based on an open source version of Unix. Note that it is possible to co-mingle the proprietary and nonproprietary versions of Unix, but this is not typically a matter of concern unless you are an expert or unless you are using Apple's version of "open source" Linux. Apple's version works pretty much like open source Linux, mostly, sometimes.
It may sound silly, but it is a combination of the words UNIX and Linus (Torvalds), the creator of Linux. so we get Linux , which is short for Linus's UNIX. Cheers