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Unix ABCs
Unix, which is not an acronym, was developed by some of the
members of the Multics team at the bell labs starting in the late 1960's by many of the
same people who helped create the C programming
language. The Unix today, however, is not just the work of a couple of
programmers. Many other organizations, institutes and various other individuals
contributed significant additions to the system we now know today.
See additional Unix information and variants and information
on the Unix variants
page.
Developed by Linus Torvalds and
further elaborated by a number of developers throughout the world, Linux (lee'nuhks/
or /li'nuks/,_not_/li:'nuhks) is a freely available multitasking and
multiuser operating system. From the outset, Linux was placed under General
Public License (GPL).
The system can be distributed, used and expanded free of charge. In this way,
developers have access to all the source codes, thus being able to integrate
new functions or to find and eliminate programming bugs quickly. Thereby
drivers for new adapters (SCSI controller,
graphics cards, etc.) can be integrated very rapidly.
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information on the Linux
variants page.
If you are able to navigate using MS-DOS, you should be able to
quickly pick up on the navigation of Linux and Unix. In the below chart is a
listing of common MS-DOS commands with their Linux and Unix counterpart.
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