What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux? And what is a kernel?

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I know Linux is an operating system but I see memes and posts about people arguing whether UNIX is an operating system or a kernel and stuff like that. So what separates the two? And what exactly is a kernel?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Others have explained the rest. You got it messed up. Linux is just the kernel which distros (which you call linux) are built on.

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