On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:46:04PM +1200, Joshua Lowe wrote: > Hey there, > > Im currently studying the UNIX and LINUX Operating systems at Uni. Ive been given an > assignment and my mission is to find out technical / operational differences between > UNIX as an operating system and Linux. Such differences Ive found are kernels, File > systems. Can you help any with this soft of info? > > cheers > > Josh > Hi Josh, first there was unix created about 1960. it great but proprietary. In the 1980's Richard Stallman liked unix but wanted to fix his printer. This caused him to create the GNU project. It's goal was to make a free (libre) version of unix. in the 1990's Linus Torvalds took Richards work and added his kernel and thus Gnu/Linux was born. They are both similar as they are based on POSIX. Richard wanted an all free (libre) version of Gnu/Linux and ian murdock started debian. Debian is now 11 years old! This is only a basic history. See: http://www.gnu.org and http://www.debian.org -Kev --
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