- The dominant operating system on the Internet, an Internet fact of life.
- UNIX has long been the choice for workstations and mainframes in research and academia.
- There are many flavors of UNIX, available for most types of computers.
- UNIX, like DOS, is character based, (sometimes with a graphical shell.)
- LINUX is a UNIX-like operating system, developed by Linus Torvalds, for Intel-based PC’s. The biggest advantage of Linux is the availability of the complete source code for the operating system. People are able to modify the operating system at will.
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