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There are not much differences between Linux and UNIX in terms of most of the commands and working if
looking from an end-user perspective. But internally in the sense of hardware, kernel, patches etc there
are numorous differences. 

Well to be specific Linux is considered as Unix-Like Operating system coming under the category of UNIX LIKE US ON FACEBOOK FOR ALL UPDATES
clones. A clone is a program (i.e., an operating system or an application program) that has functions and
behavior similar to another program but which does not contain source code from that program.

License
(History)
UNIX was developed and evolved more as a licensed version or proprietary software.It was used more for
commercial purpose. This was one of the reason for Linux to be developed as a free operating system by
Linus Torvalds. Once the Linux kernel was developed later it was released under GPL (GNU General Public You like this
License) integrated with libraries, compilers, text editors transforming it into an operating system and
releasing worldwide as opensource.

(Present)
Even now most UNIX operating system are proprietary as they are mostly commercially used like Oracle's
Solaris, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, and IBM's AIX. Well there are also some open source OS for UNIX like
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Scientific Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu etc. For commercial version there is Red hat Linux, SUSE etc.
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Kernel UNIX/LINUX

Kernel can be considered the HEART of any operating system. Now as explained in the history part Linux HOW TO FIX [ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET NOT SUPPORTED ON
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The source code for most UNIX kernel specially commercial versions are not available freely. On the other HOW TO CREATE USER WITHOUT USERADD COMMAND IN LINUX
hand most Linux OS source code are free available under the GPL and can be read, modified and used by
any and everyone.

Patches and updates

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Linux being open source their patches are released in the form of source code which can be manually and
updated. Now one negative point on this one can be that these patches are not much tested for bug as
compared to commercial version of UNIX. In case of Linux based on the feedback of users and developers
the bugs are fixed and patches are released. But in case of UNIX developers test the patch multiple times
before releasing it to the update server of their OS.

NOTE: In case of commercial version of Linux the patches are checked and verifed prior releasing it to
their relative OS. Re-revised version of OS are released at regular intervals with all the bug fixes as
developed.

UNIX OS seems to be more stable in terms of releasing patches or upgrades and the code works for longer
time for the same driver as compared to Linux.

Filesystem support
Linux has very high scalibility be it in terms of hardware architectures or filesystem as it suports many of
them unlike UNIX OS which supports very few type of filesystem.

Filesystem supported under Linux

adfs, affs, autofs, cifs, coda, coherent, cramfs, debugfs, devpts, efs,
ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, nfs4, ntfs,
proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs, smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs,
umsdos, usbfs, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs

Filesystem supported under UNIX

OS File system
AIX jfs, gpfs
HP-UX hfs, vxfs
Solaris ufs, zfs
Irix xfs

System Administra on Tools

Well mostly Linux/Unix are preferred to be used on CLI rather than GUI in corporate world. But still to
make things easier both the OS offer different type of GUI tools for administrators.

In Red Hat - system-config-*

In HP-UX - SAM (System Administration Manager)
In SUSE - YaST

As per the command perspective, there can be seen many differences 

For example to install a package

In Red Hat - rpm -i file
In Solaris - pkgadd -d pkgfile
IN HP-UX - swinstall -s depot software
IN AIX- installp - [-c] FileSet

System Ini aliza on scripts

Location of the system init scripts is different on both the types of OS
System Location
HP-UX /sbin/init.d
AIX /etc/rc.d/init.d
Irix /etc/init.d
Solaris /etc/init.d
Red Hat /etc/rc.d/init.d
SUSE /etc/rc.d/init.d
Debian /etc/init.d
Slackware /etc/rc.d

Cost
As discussed in earlier part of this article most UNIX use their own hardware for their OS their cost price

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rises accordingly where on the opposite side getting a commercial version of Linux OS is very much
cheaper.

Examples for Linux and UNIX

UNIX Linux
HP-UX Red Hat

AIX Debian

Irix Ubuntu
Solaris SUSE
BSD CentOS
Fedora
Scientific Linux
Slackware

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Naveen 11 Aug 2015, 04:39:00

Nice way of explanation. thanks
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CHASSEP JOACHIM 23 May 2016, 12:40:00

Thank very much
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