Introduction to Open Source & Linux

Technical University Sofia

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Source code vs binary (executable)

compiler
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The good old times, Richard Stallman and GNU

By a guy named
Richard Stallman
by Sir Adavis

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It all started GNU’s

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by cheetah100
Linux

“just a hobby, won't be big

and professional like gnu”

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Linus Torvalds Tux
In 1992
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Open Source vs Free Software
+ = F(L)OSS
●Free as in freedom, not free beer!
●A ‘rebranding’ effort to make it more appealing to corporations
●Almost the same thing, but implying different underlying values.
rms: “Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement."
Also, it’s called GNU/Linux! SAP
The 4 freedoms:
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● The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
● The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)*
● The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
● The freedom to distribute copies of your Hybrid
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to others (freedom 3).
* Access to the source code is a precondition for this
 Licenses and copyright*
* I am not a lawyer

Open Source is not just for software:

permissive

...
copyleft

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Business models for open source

Services – consulting, hosting, support

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Dual license According to recent surveys more than
50% of the contributors overall receive
payment for their work on open source
and in the case of the Linux kernel more
than 80% of developers are getting paid.

©🄯 Open core
Collaboration tools

Mailing lists

#IRC Internet relay chat

Version control systems

Bug tracking systems

Introduction to Linux
Why do we need an operating system?

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Allocate and manage system resources

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Hide the complexity and variety of the underlying
hardware

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Networking and filesystems

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User interface – command line or graphical desktop
environments
Unix

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Multiuser and multitasking OS

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Written in C

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Do one thing and do it well

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Keep it simple/stupid (KISS)

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Everything is a file
 Linux distributions

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Bundles of software including the Linux kernel + many
other components (installer, libraries, applications)

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Provide ‘package managers’ and repositories with
thousands of software packages available
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Usually any distro can be used for any task, but some
are more geared towards servers or desktops or a
specific graphical desktop environment
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More than 300 distros to choose from
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