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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

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

LINUX directory structure

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