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Unix VS Linux


Free Software says that people have freedom to share software and related technology free without any hesitating. And also this may enable the rapid software development because all brains become to one stage and play the game. On a technical level, Free software grantees the right view and also modify source code if some one need different think as his view. In this post I am not going to deeply discuss about what Unix is and What Linux but here lats we talk about some interesting happenings around Unix and Linux


What is Unix.
In 1980, A computer scientist called Richard Stallman decided to create a venerable operating system called Unix. At the time Unix ran many of industrial and academic system in the world. He started developing Unix operating system and most of the world wide people join with him to success this operating system. Stallman called his version as "GNU" (Pronounced G-noo). This was start of GNU but not Unix, any way this was the new legendary of Unix so there is not fault that if we consider this Stallman's effort as start of Unix.

What is Linux
GNU grew in to major project with the many contributors but GNU has not a good kernal. kernal is a program at the hart of any computer to operate most of basic stuff like communicating software and hards ware. So that in 1991, Linus Torvalds provided a solution by developing a kernal on existing Unix operating system. Finally this system get his name and popular as Linux- a hybrid of “Linus” and “Unix”. Crucially, Torvalds chose to release his kernel as Free Software, and invited any interested party to give him a hand. They did. Thousands of people around the world got involved. As the years went by, the project became more and more important, and grander in its design and outlook. Today, the Linux kernel receives sponsorship from many major corporations, including IBM.

Software from other sources is typically included in the Linux operating system too, alongside GNU and the Linux kernel. Virtually all the software in Linux is Free Software, even though much of it has no direct ties with GNU or Richard Stallman. Arguably, Stallman’s greatest gift to the world was not the GNU software, but the concept of Free Software. Much of Stallman’s activity nowadays involves evangelizing around the world about Free Software.


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  1. Great differences.Thanks for letting us know importance of Unix and Linux.

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