Introduction To GNU/Linux

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Freedom by Choice
GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.

Richard Stallman made the Initial Announcement of the GNU Project in September 1983. The word free in free software pertains to freedom, not price.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in October 1985, initially to raise funds to help develop GNU.

Not as in Free Beer!

Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.

The GNU/Linux System

In January 1984, the group started to write a Unix-like operating system which includes a kernel, compilers, editors, text formatters, mail software, graphical interfaces, libraries, games and many other things. By 1990 they had either found or written all the major components except onethe kernel. Then Linux, a Unix-like kernel, was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and made free software in 1992.

The GNU/Linux System

Combining Linux with the almost-complete GNU system resulted in a complete operating system: the GNU/Linux system.

Evolution of Operating Systems

Mailing List for GNU/Linux

Versioning of Linux Kernel

Linux Kernel Architecture

Linux Kernel Subsystems

Why Should You Use (?) Linux

Linux kernel is an experimenting platform encouraging people to try out new things! Less stable than BSD Less secure than BSD Less cleaner than BSD Less portable than BSD Less documented than BSD

Thank you!

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