What is Linux, Introduction with Operating System
What is an Operating System?
All time we switch on our computers, we see a screen where we can
execute contrary activities like writing, internet browsing or
watching any video. What is it that forms the computer hardware work
like it? How does the processor on our PC know that we are
request it to execute the file of mp3?
Well, it is called operating system or
kernel which does work like this. A kernel
of the operating system is the program at the any operating system
heart that take care for the stuff of fundamental, like letting
communicate the software with hardware.
So, to work on our computer we require an
Operating System(OS) .In fact, We are using one as we read
this on our computers. Now, we can have used popular OS’s like
Apple OS X, Windows but here you will learn what is Linux
and what goods of Linux it offers over other OS selections.
What is Linux? Who Developed Linux?
Linux is like an operating system OS or a kernel which germinated
as an thought in the brain of bright and young Linus Torvalds
when he was a student of computer science. He used to activity on the
UNIX OS (a proprietary software), and thought that
it required to much improvement.
However, when his ideas were disapproved by the UNIX designers, he
planned of launching an OS which will be modifications and
receptive to changes suggested by its users.
The Lone Kernel and the advance days
So Linus devised the Kernel called Linux in 1991.
Though he would require programs like Document Editors, File Manager,
Audio or Video programs to execute on it. Something as we have a
conoid but no ice cream on J top.
By passed time, he got together with other developers in
places like MIT and Linux applications started to visible.
So around year 1991, The Linux operating system working with few
applications were launched officially and this was the starting of
one of the open source and most loved OS option present
today.
The advanced versions of Linux were not so with the user friendly
as they were in the use by PC developers and Linus Torvalds
never thought it to commercialize this product.
This decidedly curbed the popularity of Linux as another
commercially oriented Operating System Windows got popular. None the
less, the open source aspect of the operating system of Linux made it
more burly.
Linux gets its due attention
The main benefit of Linux was that
developers were capable to use the Linux Kernel in order to develop
their own customize operating systems. With time, a newly range of
user friendly OS’s violent storm in the computer world. Now, Linux
is one of mostly famous and vastly used Kernel, and it is
the popular operating systems backbone like Knoppix, Ubuntu,
Fedora, and Debian. Never the less, the list doesn't end
here as there are thousands which are OS’s based with Linux which
offer a miscellanea of functions for the user.
The benefits or the Advantages of using Linux
Linux now utilizes popularity at its quality and it is famous
among all developers as well as regular users of computer all around
the world. Its main advantages are provided below -
It provides a operating system free. We don't
have to spend hundreds dollars to use the OS like Windows !
- Being the open source, any of you with help of programming knowledge can edit it for your customize purpose.
- Only Linux operating systems provides millions of programs / applications to select from, most of them are totally free of cost!
- Once we have installed the Linux we no longer require an anti-virus! Linux is great secured system.. so, there is development community globally constantly looking at structure to improve its safety. With each updation, the OS become more robust and secure.
- Linux is the choice of OS for environments of Server due to
its reliability and stability (Mega-companies like Face-book, Amazon
and Google always use OS Linux as their Servers). A Linux based
servers could execute non stop without a rebooting for several
years.
Is Linux for me?
User, who is new to Linux, usually avoid it by considering falsely
it as technical and difficult OS to work but, to state the true, in
the last some years Linux operating system has become a lot more user
friendly than their counter parts like Windows OS,
so stressful them is the best way to know whether Linux suits us for
our work or require any other.
There are thousand of based on Linux operating systems;
mostly offers for them to state of the art of applications
and security, all of its for free!
This is what Linux is all about, and now you will decision on to
how to do Linux installation and which Arrangement we should select.
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Learn Unix? Then why Linux?
Mother of operating systems is UNIX. which set out the basis to
Linux. Unix designed primarily for mainframes and is in universities
and enterprises. Instead Linux is hot becoming a household name for
users of computer, server environment and developers. We can have to
pay for a kernel of Unix during in the Linux, As it is free of cost.
But, the command used for both the operating systems are
same normally. So There is not high deviation between Linux
and UNIX. Though they might be look contrary, at core, they are
basically the same. Since, Clone of UNIX is Linux.
So learning one will definitely help or same as learning second one.
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