What is Linux? Student: Fomin Maxim Group: 294
What is Linux? A Unix-like Operating System A famous open source project Free to use, distribute, modify under a compatible licence Produced by a large developer and user community A combination of many projects Cost of commercial development estimated at USD 14 billion Companies often make money by selling: Support Training Custom changes
History GNU project started 1984 to produce a Unix-like OS Founded by Richard Stallman Wrote the GNU manifesto in 1985 outlining philosophy Software that is free means more than free of charge "It means that much wasteful duplication of system programming effort will be avoided. This effort can go instead into advancing the state of the art." By early 1990s many of the GNU OS utilities were complete Meanwhile.... Linus Torvalds starts work on the Linux Kernel First version released in 1991 Changes Linux to GPL licence in 1992 Combined with GNU to make an OS The first Distros MCC Interim Linux Softlanding Linux System (SLS) Debian
Advantages of linux Linux has no viruses You can secure work on the Internet The system is stable Clearly limited the right of users and programs
Where might you find Linux?
Desktop Desktop is not much different from Windows
OpenOffice There is also a free document editor OpenOffice
Games Many Win-applications can be run using the emulator Wine.
Linux Today High profile adoptions: French Police French Parliament City of Munich Amazon Google Yandex Dreamworks Preinstalled: Sub notebooks: EEE & OLPC Dell Server hardware
(data for 2006 at the Russian leader servers) FreeBSD 53%, followed by Linux 32%, the number of servers that are running Windows OS was 9%. According to a sample survey:
Linux on the desktop Different desktop systems available Choose the one you like the best! Can adapt to Mac & Windows styles of operation
Linux on the desktop Many countries, educational institutions and campaigns have already switched to Linux, It is the perfect alternative to Windows. Free Stable It is easy to learn to work No viruses Windows 7 Ultimate = rub =