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What is the difference between Linux and Unix?

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Question added by ELSAYED HASSAN , Technical Support , elyoser for international transport
Date Posted: 2013/09/09
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Mohammad Salah
by Mohammad Salah , Senior Technical Consultant , International Turnkey Systems

Linux is one of the UNIX operating systems such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX ... etcMostly Linux is found on x86 architecture where it has been originally developed (although ported to other architectures)Other UNIX operating systems are mostly found on RISC architectures (with minor exceptions such as Solaris x86)All UNIX operating systems follow standards such as BSD and SVR4

ghilman ahmed
by ghilman ahmed , System Administrator , Streaming Networks Pvt Ltd

As far as i can understand

Linux == ( Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse )

Unix == (Solaris, MacOsx, HP Unix, AIX5/6/7, Redhat, Fedora ( All Linux )  ).

Unix is superset and Linux is subset.

Otherwise mostly same.

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