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What is Linux

What is Linux. Prepared by: Dr. Bahjat Qazzaz. By the beginning of the 90s, PCs became powerful to run UNIX. Linus Torvalds , CS student, has the idea to have a free version of UNIX, and He promptly started to code.

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What is Linux

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  1. What is Linux Prepared by: Dr. BahjatQazzaz

  2. By the beginning of the 90s, PCs became powerful to run UNIX. • LinusTorvalds, CS student, has the idea to have a free version of UNIX, and • He promptly started to code.

  3. From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Gcc-1.40 and a posix-question Message-ID: <1991Jul3.100050.9886@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 3 Jul 91 10:00:50 GMT Hello netlanders, Due to a project I'm working on (in minix), I'm interested in the posix standard definition. Could somebody please point me to a (preferably) machine-readable format of the latest posix rules? Ftp-sites would be nice.

  4. New drivers became available for all kinds of new hardware. • Two years later, there were 12000 Linux users. The project grew steadily. • All the features of UNIX were added over the next couple of years, resulting in the mature operating system Linux. • Linux is a full UNIX clone.

  5. Current application of Linux systems • Networking • Office applications,the last barrier to be taken down (removed), providing an easy user interface and MS compatible office applications like • word processors, • spreadsheets, • presentations

  6. Current application of Linux systems • On the server side, • Linux is well-known as a stable and • reliable platform, providing database and • trading services for companies like • Amazon, the well-known online bookshop, • US Post Office, • the German army and • many others…..

  7. Internet providers and Internet service providers have grown fond of Linux as • firewall, • proxy- and • web server, and • UNIX system administrator who appreciates a comfortable management station

  8. Clusters of Linux • Multiple computers can work together on solving a probleة • Linux not only runs on workstations, mid- and high-end servers, but also on • "gadgets اداة او جزء من آلة " like PDA's, mobiles, • a shipload of embedded applications and even on • experimental wristwatches. This makes Linux the only operating system in the world covering such a wide range of hardware

  9. The user interface

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