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11-21-2008, 05:14 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2008
Posts: 15
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what are the difference between linux and dos?
what are the difference between linux and dos?
please tell me.
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11-21-2008, 05:19 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
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You should really ask what are the similarities apart from the fact that both are OS's
I just looked at you posting history. Do you ever intend to make more than the initial post to a thread you start?
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11-21-2008, 07:06 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Linux is based on Unix and DOS isn't. We seem to be having a spate of these....
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11-21-2008, 07:57 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: Slackware 12.2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by XavierP
Linux is based on Unix and DOS isn't. We seem to be having a spate of these....
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linuxquestions.org = indian google :P
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11-21-2008, 08:02 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Russia
Distribution: Slackware 12.2
Posts: 1,202
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kamalkirat1
what are the difference between linux and dos?
please tell me.
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In short, Linux and DOS have nothing in common.
Check en.wikipedia.org for articles about both of them.
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11-21-2008, 08:09 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: In front of my LINUX OR MAC BOX
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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And to make it more funny there once Pcdos , Qdos , Msdos
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11-21-2008, 08:29 AM
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Russia
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Originally Posted by ronlau9
And to make it more funny there once Pcdos , Qdos , Msdos
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... and freedos
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11-21-2008, 09:03 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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Originally Posted by billymayday
I just looked at you posting history. Do you ever intend to make more than the initial post to a thread you start?
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Ditto.....
kamal;
You have a perfect record of posting a random question and never responding with follow-up. I strongly suggest that you stop this---otherwise we might conclude you are just trolling us.
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11-21-2008, 09:07 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kamalkirat1
what are the difference between linux and dos?
please tell me.
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This is an easy one!!!
Get the source code for dos and put it in a file named "dos".
Linux source code---->"linux"
Open a terminal and run "cmp -b dos linux"
You can also do this with the binaries:
"cmp -b dos linux|hexdump -C"
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11-21-2008, 09:10 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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Quote:
Originally Posted by XavierP
Linux is based on Unix and DOS isn't. We seem to be having a spate of these....
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Actually, wasn't there some heritage from Unix to DOS? Unix came first, so it would be hard to write DOS without peeking..... 
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11-21-2008, 09:44 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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amazing what you can find with Google by searching for 'DOS vs Linux'
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11-21-2008, 11:19 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Directly above centre of the earth, UK
Distribution: SuSE, plus some hopping
Posts: 4,070
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixellany
You have a perfect record of posting a random question and never responding with follow-up. I strongly suggest that you stop this---otherwise we might conclude you are just trolling us.
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You could have added that most people would judge that there is hardly a good question amongst them. This one doesn't have much of an answer, except that they are different.
There are some that should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about the background
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how we can install the software in redhat?
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i am trying to install the ms office2007 in linux
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how we can switch between windows and linux?
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what are the difference between linux and dos?
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what is the similarity between linux commands and dos commands?
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{those last two are indeed two threads, though they sound similar}).
And there is
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how we can change startup screen in linux?
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It should be possible to google for this, although you'd have to know the right words, and that is probably easier to forgive.
Then there is
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help me for this problem when i forget my fedora root password in linux?
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At best, this is inept, although, I guess you can argue that most people have phases of ineptitude amongst the good stuff. (If anyone actually wants to point out the good stuff, in this case...)
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11-21-2008, 12:23 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ is both awesome, genuine and useful. And I am well aware that both does not mean three things.
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11-21-2008, 01:26 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Bah. Mine was a real page, yours wasn't. I want my click back.
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