I have been using open source software for over ten years now. I have been using Linux for about the same time, too. A lot has changed in ten years but my love for idea of open source hasn’t changed. It has always been my goal to get everyone I meet to start using open source software, even if it is within a proprietary system.
What is Linux?
Linux is best known as the most used open source computer operating system in the world. You can think of Linux as the the software that is under all the other software on your computer, making requests on behalf of those programs and forwarding the requests onto the computer’s hardware.
We use the term Linux to refer to the Linux kernel but Linux is much more than that. It is a set of programs, tools and services that are bundled with Linux kernel to give the users a necessary set of tools to give fully functioning operating systems.
So what makes Unix different from Linux?
You may of heard of Unix, which was a operating systems that was developed in the 1970’s at Bell Labs by Denis Richie, Ken Thompson and many others.
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