Sunday, 6 January 2013

what is Linux

Linux is a kernel, that was made to be Unix-like. What differs from Unix is that all the software included is open source and free for anyone to modify and build their own kernels.
This leads to that there are so called distributions, for example Fedora and Linux Mint. They are complete operating systems using the linux-kernel and additionally a lot of software that makes sence to have on a computer. For example window handling using Xserver. And to that some Window Managers like Gnome or KDE, perhanps Cinnamon which is my latest favourite, a fork of Gnome I believe.

If you are looking for information about starting to use linux and wonder what you should choose, look here.

If you want to run a server with linux go here.

If you wonder about hardware in linux, this might help you.

If you want reasons to start to use linux, please have a look here:
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