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Relationship to UNIX. Reimplementation and elaboration of UNIXConforms to the POSIX standard (API for unix)Free , Open sourceCooperatively developed. History. 1991, 1st Kernel 1994Linus TorvaldsBased off of UNIX, 1969Berkley Ran out of fundingReleased final version, BSD-LiteCurrent versions
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1. Linux
2. Relationship to UNIX Reimplementation and elaboration of UNIX
Conforms to the POSIX standard (API for unix)
Free , Open source
Cooperatively developed
3. History 1991, 1st Kernel 1994
Linus Torvalds
Based off of UNIX, 1969
Berkley Ran out of funding
Released final version, BSD-Lite
Current versions are Free BSD, NetBSD Mac OS X, OpenBSD
Linux does not share code, rewritten
4. Distributions Kernel combined with
Commands
Daemons
Other software
All share the same kernel linage
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise
Slackware
Ubuntu
http://distrowatch.com/
5. Help Manual pages (man pages) - use the man command
Textinfo – info command
Book also mentions - http://www.tldp.org