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Difference Between Linux and Unix

Feature Linux Unix


Kernel Linux kernel, developed by Linus Torvalds and Various Unix kernels, such as those used
the open-source community in Unix-like systems like macOS, AIX, HP-
UX, Solaris, etc.

Licensing Primarily distributed under the GNU General Various proprietary and open-source
Public License (GPL) or similar open-source licenses, depending on the Unix variant
licenses

Development Open-source development model with Historically proprietary development, with


Model contributions from a large community of some open-source variants emerging later
developers worldwide (e.g., OpenSolaris)

Variants Various distributions (distros) tailored for Different Unix variants developed by
different use cases and audiences (e.g., various vendors (e.g., macOS by Apple,
Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS) AIX by IBM, HP-UX by HP)

Filesystem Typically uses the ext4 filesystem by default, May use different filesystems depending
but supports various filesystems such as Btrfs, on the Unix variant (e.g., HFS+ on macOS,
XFS, and others JFS on AIX)

Shell Commonly uses the Bash shell as the default Various shells available, including Bourne
command-line interface shell (sh), C shell (csh), Korn shell (ksh),
and others

Package Package managers like apt (used in Debian- Package management systems specific to
Management based distros) or yum/dnf (used in Red Hat- each Unix variant (e.g., pkgadd on Solaris,
based distros) for package installation and rpm on Red Hat-based Unix systems)
management

Desktop Supports various desktop environments like May use proprietary desktop
Environment GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc. environments (e.g., Aqua on macOS) or
open-source alternatives (e.g., Xfce)

Hardware Extensive hardware support, with drivers Hardware support varies depending on
Support included in the kernel or available as kernel the Unix variant and may be tailored to
modules specific hardware platforms

Community and Large and active open-source community Support may vary depending on the Unix
Support providing support through forums, variant and vendor, with some
documentation, and online resources commercial support options available for
certain Unix systems

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