What is the difference between Unix and Linux?

Where can I purchase Unix? Where can Linux be downloaded from or purchased?

What is the difference between Unix and Linux?
You can see some details about Linux vs Unix at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=455%22%...





There are lots of different distributions of linux, many of which are free. You can check them out at:





http://distrowatch.com/





You can also find some more Unix and Linux download links at: http://www.tech-faq.com/download-unix.sh...
Reply:you can download them free check out www.distrowatch.com


or you can buy some off ebay also distrowatch has linls to a couple of sites to buy them for a newbie I would recomend freespire and or ubuntu
Reply:There are many flavors of UNIX, but none is actually called "UNIX". And yes, you can say Linux is a UNIX flavor, although it now stands on it's own.


So, if you want a UNIX box, I would advise to use Linux, but if you want more options (which might require different hardware) try Sun Solaris or HPUX.
Reply:You can always go to bestbuy or even a computer speality and they can help you out with things like that.
Reply:All you answers are here:


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_di...
Reply:UNIX was originally developed as a proprietary system. Because of the high licensing fees Linus Torvalds made the core of UNIX from scratched and released it for anyone to use and hence we have Linux. There is more to the story, but that is the gist.