On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:08 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > As everyone knows my posts are basically 'or have been' about my learning > and my... so called research <--some scoff' > > The introduction of Unix now more commonly named GNU-Linux <--from a basic > standpoint as 'wishing to be smart’ > > > Then you should understand and know that Linux is not Unix at all. > Linux is a fork from Unix from 20+ years ago. Unix is still alive and well > (HPUX, AIX). Linux covers those that are called Linux and then there’s BSD > which is another fork. Linux is NOT a fork from Unix, it is a combination of GNU, a reimplementation(and betterment IMHO) of the Unix userland tools, with a kernel written by Linus Torvalds, but these two are certainly not the only parts in the system. People have tried in the past to claim that Linux is a derivative of Unix but there is no factual basis to this claim. Minix is another example of a reimplementation that does not share code with the original Unix. the various BSDs and commercial UNIX offerings(HP's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Microsoft's(yes, THAT Microsoft) Xenix, SCO's(Novels?) UnixWare, Digital's Tru64, Sun's SunOS/Solaris, Apple's OSX... etc) are all forks and derivatives of the original Unix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies