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TheBrief history of LINUX

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           The brief history of LINUX  In Finland, a student studying in the university of Helsinki named as Linus Torvalds . At that time , the students & people are used the operating system called UNIX. And the students are used an version of UNIX called MINIX . The MINIX was developed by the prof.Andrew.S.Tannenbaum. Mr .Linus studied the MINIX and he got  attracted by the elegance and effectiveness of its parent UNIX. The UNIX was created by the Ken Thompson. The Linus was decided to develop an effective pc version of  UNIX  for the MINIX users. And he developed an version that was named as LINUX (his first name and the last letter of UNIX ).and he released a version 0.11 in the year 1991.s              LINUX was widely distributed by the internet. The LINUX was attracted by everyone and the programmers are refined the new operating system , LINUX and added some special features found in the standard UNIX systems.                                 The LINUX became the u
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The File Hierarchy Standard of LINUX

The File Hierarchy Standard        The File Hierarchy Standard, or FHS for short, is a system that standardises the names of certain directories that contain important information .The files in the hierarchy are:   /bin - The /bin directory contains program files that are available to all users.  These are typically considered as the most ''essential''. /boot - The boot directory contains that static files used by the boot loader. We may want to create a partition for this directory when we install our system – it will add a little extra protection for these files. /dev - All of our device files are stored in the / dev directory. T hese range from hard drives, to CD – ROM floppy drive, and many others. /etc  - The FHS calls this directory ‘’Host – specific configuration information.’’ I t’s where most of our configuration are used for the files are stored that are used for the system. B oth .conf and .rc  files are located in this directory. These are us
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LINUX directory structure

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what is LINUX? & what is KERNEL?

what is LINUX?           Linux is an operating system and it is the base software that makes a computer to interact with the user. Linux is the KERNEL which means, the core component of the operating system and it is a free operating system.  what is KERNEL?        If you think an operating system as a nut, the shell is a part  that we use. The kernel that is the central part of the operating system is the core that talks to the computer's hardware.
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Distributions of linux 1.ubuntu 2.debian 3.pc linux os 4.fedora 5.linux mint 6.openSUSE 7.mandriva 8.sabaayon/gentoo 9.arch linux....plus slackware 10.puppy linux....plusDSL
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UNIX and LINUX

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Linux is an open source, free to use operating system widely used for computer hardware and software, game development, tablet PCS, mainframes etc. Unix is an operating system commonly used in INTERNET SERVERS & WORKSTATIONS and PCs by Solaris, Intel, HP etc. UNIX and Linux Hardware Commercial UNIX hardware has more advanced initial boot options such as: Decide how to boot Check system health Set hardware parameters etc Linux Linux is just a kernel. All Linux distributions includes GUI system + GNU utilities (such as cp, mv, ls,date, bash etc) + installation & management tools + GNU c/c++ Compilers + Editors (vi) + and various applications (such as OpenOffice, Firefox). However, most UNIX operating systems are considered as a complete operating system as everything come from a single source or vendor. License and cost Linux is Free (as in beer [freedom]). You can download it from the Internet or redistribute it under GNU licenses. You will s
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FEATURES OF LINUX

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RELIABILITY     LINUX IS A HIGHLY RELIABLE SYSTEM. LINUX SERVERS ARE NOT SHUT DOWN FOR YEARS TOGETHER.NORMALLY OPERATING FAILURES ARE UNKNOWN TO LINUX SYSTEM. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY LINUX HAS EXCELLENT SUPPORT FOR OLDER HARDWARE.IT CAN RUN ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROCESSOR. NO VIRUS ATTACK VIRUS IS THE MOST DREADED WORD IN COMPUTER INDUSTRY.LINUX IS SAID TO BE FREE OF VIRUS ATTACK.IT IS RUMOURED ONLY NOW VIRUS ATTACK LINUX SYSTEM ALSO. SIMPLE UPGRADE & INSTALLATION INSTALLATION PROCEDURE OF MOST LINUX VERSION IS MENU DRIVEN AND EASY  GUI INTERFACE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE FOR LINUX IS KDE,GNOME . KDE,GNOME PROVIDES NEARLY ALL COMFORT OF WINDOWS 98 SYSTEM. SECURITY FEATURES LINUX PROVIDE EXCELLENT  SECURITY FEATURES THIS IS WHY MOST PEOPLE SWITCH OVER TO LINUX. CAN SUPPORT A HIGH USER LOAD LINUX CAN SUPPORT LARGE NUMBER OF USERS WORKING SIMULTANEOUSLY  DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIES LINUX OFFER PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES LIKE C++ & PERL. MULTIPLE DISTR
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