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What is UNIX and Linux?

1,  History of UNIX => UNIX is an Operating System (OS). => UNIX was developed about 40 years ago i.e., 1969 at AT&T Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritche. => It is a Command Line Interpreter. v It was developed for the Mini-Computers as a time sharing system. => UNIX was the predecessor of LINUX.   2. History of  LINUX => LINUX was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991. => LINUX is a open source. => LINUX is a variant of UNIX. 3.   Why LINUX/UNIX? => LINUX is free. => Can view and edit the source code of OS v It is fully customizable. => Most Important Feature is Stability => 30Years to get the bugs => Important in shared environments and critical applications => LINUX has better security structure. => High Portability. =>Easy to port new H/W Platform. =>Written in C which is highly portable Source: LINUX TUTORIAL