Linux-Unix, Win3x-Dos?

[baoluanle]

Quich question!!! is linux just simply the GUI of unix? is it similar to the idea of Windows 3x shell on top on DOS? Thanks for your inputs!!!!!!!!!!

[mjc]

My understanding of it is that Linux is a variation of Unix (a form of Unix that will run on PCs--Unix is the OS of the old main frame computers), it would be more like comparing MSDOS to IBM DOS, basically the same but different....

G_H, and others are welcome to correct my interpretation.

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[tjaymadison]

Linux is to Unix as Windows is to OS/2, or like mjc said, as PC-DOS to MS-DOS.

XWindows is the generic term for a Unix/Linux GUI

Try a search at Webopedia here (http://www.webopedia.com).


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[Rick]

Linux is a multi tasking O/S that works with or without the GUI ( Graphics user interface )
It runs well on a system with as little as a 386-33. (With out the GUI)

Kind of like rebooting to dos from windows. But still being able to run multiple programs.