What is Linux? (Linux PART 1)

What is Linux ?

• Linux is an Operating System 
• Linux was created by Linus Torvalds when he was an undergraduate at the University of Helsinki, Finland in 1991.

Primary Advantages

• FREE
• Open Source – Source code of the Linux Operating System is freely available.

Common Linux Features

• Multiuser
  You can create many user accounts on a Linux System and also have multiple users logged in and working on the system at the same time.
  
• Multitasking
  You can have many programs running at the same time.
• Graphical User Interface
  Linux provides a powerful framework for working with graphical applications, referred to as the X Window System.
• Hardware Support
  You can arrange help for almost all types of hardware that can be linked to a PC.
• Networking Connectivity
  Linux provides many ways to connect your Linux System to a network.
• Network Servers
  Linux provides many different server applications, such as Apache Web Server, Sendmail Mail Server.
• Application support
  Most GNU software from Free Software Foundation will run in Linux. Also, there is a wide range of freeware and shareware software available for Linux. (GNU stands for GNU is Not UNIX)

Linux Distributions

• Fedora Core (Red Hat) 
• SUSE
• Ubuntu
• MEPIS
• Mandriva
• Gentoo
• Debian
• Damn Small Linux (DSL)
• Knoppix
• Puppy
• Vector Linux
• PCLinuxOS
• SLAX
• Slackware
• And many more...!!!