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What is Linux?
Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds developed under the GNU General Public License and the source code of which is freely available to every one.
History
• GNU Project started in 1984 to create “free” UNIX clone.
• LINUX kernel created by Finnish college student, Linus Torvalds in 1991.
LINUS TORVALDS
Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS)
What can you do? Freedom to use Freedom to examine Freedom to redistribute Freedom to modify
What can't you do? Deny these freedoms to anyone else
Why use Linux?
Reliability Scalability Flexibility Security Price
The Unix 'onion'
Linux kernel + GNU applications = complete, free, UNIX-like OS
Desktop applications
Word processing (OpenOffice, Koffice) Programming (C, C++, Perl, Python,
Java, PHP) Graphics (GIMP) Web browsers (Mozilla, Konquerer) Email (Evolution, Mozilla, KMail) Audio (amarok) Games (MAME)
Linux Distributions ( Flavours )
RedHat/Fedora Market leader. Licensing changes mean this
is a less obvious choice than before. SuSE
Well-equiped. Recently acquired by Novell. Mandrake
Friendly, slick. Debian
Non-commercial, community-maintained. Tricky but powerful
The command line
Linux
VS
Windows
Flavors
WINDOWS
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 2003
LINUX
Suse
Fedora
Redhat
Debian
Ubuntu
Knoppix
Slackware
Lycoris
Linspire (Lindows)
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Text Mode Interface
The DOS Prompt
The BASH Shell
Clustering
For the Enterprise…
End the monopoly…