Unlike Windows, you know that it is from Microsoft and is only one. Unix, however is not a single operating system. It has many flavors (aka. variants, types, or implementations). Although based on a core set of Unix commands, different flavors have their own unique commands and features, and designed to work with different types of hardware.<\/p>\n
The following are some of the well-known Unix flavors. By no means this is complete. No one knows exactly how many variants UNIX has, but is surely in the hundreds, including the obsolete ones.<\/p>\n
AIX<\/a> by IBM Unlike Windows, you know that it is from Microsoft and is only one. Unix, however is not a single operating system. It has many flavors (aka. variants, types, or implementations). Although based on a core …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBSD\/OS (BSDi)<\/a> by Wind River
\nCLIX<\/a> by Intergraph Corp.
\nDebian GNU\/Linux<\/a> by Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
\nTru64 Unix (formerly Digital Unix)<\/a> by Compaq Computer Corp.
\nDYNIX\/ptx by IBM (formerly by Sequent Computer Systems)
\nEsix Unix Esix Systems
\nFreeBSD<\/a> by FreeBSD Group
\nGNU Herd<\/a> by GNU Organization
\nHAL SPARC64\/OS<\/a> by HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
\nHP-UX<\/a> by Hewlett-Packard Company
\nIrix<\/a> by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
\nLinux<\/a> by several groups several
\nLynxOS by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.
\nMacOS X Server<\/a> by Apple Computer, Inc.
\nNetBSD<\/a> by NetBSD Group
\nNonStop-UX<\/a> by Compaq Computer Corporation
\nOpenBSD<\/a> by OpenBSD Group
\nOpenLinux<\/a> by Caldera Systems, Inc.
\nOpenstep by Apple Computer, Inc.
\nRed Hat Linux<\/a> by Red Hat Software, Inc.
\nReliant Unix by Siemens AG
\nSCO Unix<\/a> by The Santa Cruz Operation Inc.
\nSolaris<\/a> by Sun Microsystems
\nSuSE<\/a> by S.u.S.E., Inc.
\nUNICOS<\/a> by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
\nUTS<\/a> by UTS Global, LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"