Where Can I Find Reliable Unix & Linux Web Hosting?Posted by on June 7th, 2010
The words UNIX and Linux are not new to the world of computer professionals and even for the layman worldwide. Both are computer OS and UNIX was originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs. It is also classified as a multi-tasking interactive and multi-user OS (computer operating system). Mainly it is used to control the data storage, communications, and information process capabilities of the computer hardware. It has got three main parts comprising of kernel, shell, and file system.
Likewise Unix, Linux is also an operating system that is similar to UNIX and one of the leading server operating system in the world. It can be installed on a wide variety of systems from computer hardware to mobile phones and tablet computers and video game consoles to mainframes. Also Linux is the OS for the 10 supercomputers in the world. Linux was created by a programmer Linus Torvalds when he was a student and gave it the name Linux. He was interested in Unix and Minix and modified into make Linux. It also allows anyone to access its code and further develop on it for commercial or non-commercial purposes under special copyright, but no one allowed to profit from it.
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