Isn't Linux just UNIX under a different name?
What's the big deal about Linux? Isn't it at heart just a PC-based version of UNIX – the ‘70’s hit operating system which has outlived the predictions of its demise throughout the ‘90’s? If you’ve come from a Solaris or HP/UX or AIX background isn’t a PC-based UNIX a bit, well, passé?
To answer this you need to know the history. UNIX was kicked off by Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie around the time man first landed on the moon.
They’d been working on a project called MULTICS which was aborted. With a bit of time to kill the duo decided to write a space war game running on a PDP computer sitting around. Demonstrating the thinking that defines either brilliance or madness they first thought they ought to write an operating system before they could produce the game. This was the birth of UNIX.
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