Both Linux and Unix are Operating Systems used on digital devices. And both of them use the same commands.
Actually Linux is known as GNU Linux. Then What is GNU? Yes, GNU means Gnu is Not a Unix. We can understand from their names that Gnu Linux and Unix are very different from each other.
Let’s talk about the differences:
1. In terms of source code, Linux is open to all while Unix is closed to free use.
2. Linux uses both Command Line Interface (CLI) and Graphical User Interface(GUI), but Unix primarily uses CLI.
3. Linux is very flexible and can be used everywhere for eg. Mobile Phones, Desktop Computers, Tablets, Routers, Washing machines, hosts and supercomputers and goes so on. But Unix is generally used in Server Systems, Hosts, and Top-Level Computers. Therefore it cannot be installed on all other machines.
4. Linux continues to be developed by an active Linux Community worldwide. but Unix was developed by a particular company.
5. Unix is an operating system developed in Bell Labs in 1969. And its variants were commercial supplies that were sometimes too expensive. But Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 as a core of an operating system and released it under an open-source license so people can copy and use it freely. Here I want to say something else: free to use and copy doesn’t mean that it has no price. For Linux “You can pay and use its codes” but for Unix “It is not free to use. It has no price.”
Finally, we can say Linux is an unformed play dough. But Unix is a toy shaped by experts.
