{"id":26571,"date":"2016-06-21T07:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/whats-difference-between-linux-and-unix\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:51:05","slug":"whats-difference-between-linux-and-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/whats-difference-between-linux-and-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between Linux and Unix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Linux Kernel<\/strong> was born in 1990s and it is based on Unix, but it is developed under <strong>GNU license<\/strong>, meaning that it is <strong>100% free<\/strong> and the code is available to anyone and it can be freely modified. There are <strong>Linux operating systems for servers and clients<\/strong>, a wide variety of Linux <strong>distributions<\/strong>, <strong>desktop OS<\/strong> and tools. <strong>Red Hat<\/strong> or <strong>SUSE Linux<\/strong> are some examples of server systems and <strong>Debian<\/strong>, <strong>Ubuntu<\/strong> or <strong>Linux Mint<\/strong> are desktop OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux and Unix are not the same, but would you know how to explain the differences between them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unix<\/strong> is a <strong>propietary system<\/strong> which can&#8217;t be modified, only <strong>AT&amp;T<\/strong>, the company that created and owns it can do it. It was developed in the 1970s as an <strong>operating system<\/strong> to manage <strong>servers<\/strong> and nowadays it is mainly used for that purpose, except MacOS X, a desktop OS. 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