Archana.S.R wrote:
doesnt that mean its a unix clone?
if not please explain wat they mean in the above statements...
Linux is a clone of Unix. The latter is a family of heavy duty,
high-performance operating systems that was originally developed at AT&T Bell
Labs in 1969 by Ken Thompson. Much subsequent work on Unix was carried out at
the University of California at Berkeley (UCB).
The term clone in this context means that Linux was developed to mimic the
form and function of Unix operating systems but its source code was written
completely independently (i.e., none of it was copied from Unix source code).
Source code (also referred to as source or code) is the version of an
operating system or other software as it is originally written (i.e., typed
into a computer) by a human in plain text (i.e., human readable alphanumeric
characters) in a programming language (e.g., the C language in the case of
the Linux kernel).
