crunchgear.com— The "What's the difference between UNIX and Linux?" question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test;UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows.
Mar 24, 2008View in Crawl 4
This blog is wrong on so many facts. Why is this being digged when it's full of misinformation? Read Philluminati's post as he has more correct info than the actual blog.His analogy of DOS and Unix doesn't make sense. If you're new to linux, don't remember that analogy as it's just wrong. Linux isn't a unix-variant it's unix-like. It's just a kernel that uses GNU which stands for Gnu's Not Unix. There's other stuff he got wrong, so I'd suggest forgetting everything you just learned from it...if you did.
"Then Linux, not acting as a part of the GNU team wrote Linux, a replacement for the UNIX kernel."small typo: Linu*s* Torvalds wrote the linu*x* kernel.meh, it happens. just correcting you for the benefit of others.
soundman07Mar 24, 2008
Excellent! Great article that cleared up my misconceptions. I can now quell my fear of being knifed at a LAN party!
shootfastMar 25, 2008
You'll find that most of the names for linux applications incorporate some sort of pun or wordplay
jasonhaleyMar 25, 2008
This blog is wrong on so many facts. Why is this being digged when it's full of misinformation? Read Philluminati's post as he has more correct info than the actual blog.His analogy of DOS and Unix doesn't make sense. If you're new to linux, don't remember that analogy as it's just wrong. Linux isn't a unix-variant it's unix-like. It's just a kernel that uses GNU which stands for Gnu's Not Unix. There's other stuff he got wrong, so I'd suggest forgetting everything you just learned from it...if you did.
camg188Mar 25, 2008
A comparison of the different shells would have been a more interesting article.
Closed AccountMar 25, 2008
"Then Linux, not acting as a part of the GNU team wrote Linux, a replacement for the UNIX kernel."small typo: Linu*s* Torvalds wrote the linu*x* kernel.meh, it happens. just correcting you for the benefit of others.