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Is Linux part of Unix or it is an advanced version of Unix?

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Neither. Linux is its own family of operating systems. It is modeled after Unix and shares many design goals, but it is not completely inter-operable. Also, to be legally called a "version of Unix", an operating system must go through a rigorous and expensive certification test, which no Linux distro has currently done.
No. Linux is not an *anything* Unix.

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