Linux
GNU / Linux
Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds
UNIX-style operating Linux Kernel
system which is free
software
GNU/Linux is a pair of separate things, on the right
hand we have the GNU project and his father Richard
Stallman, and on the other side, we find Linus
Torvalds’ kernel
Free Software
Free Software is software which is “ free as in freedom ”
can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed
under the same license
considered as a pure public good rather than a private
good
example: BIND9 (DNS server), GCC compiler and his
debugger, programming language like PHP, PERL, Tcl
and Python, graphical interfaces such as KDE or Gnome
GNU/Linux negatives points
?!?! hard to install ?!?!
?!?! hard to use ?!?!
Games
Sound creation-editing-sampling
GNU/Linux positives points
Security
Reliability
Stability
Virus-free
Free of charges
beauty and handiness
Gnome
KDE
What’s a distribution?
include additional system software and applications, an installer
system to ease initial system setup and simplified management of
component updates and many others things depending on the
purpose.
Which?
The balance act: Red Hat Linux, Mandrake Linux, and SuSE
Simple and easy: Lycoris Linux, Xandros Linux and Lindows
original Linux distributions: Slackware
CD-based distributions: knoppix…
Many many others…
GNU/Linux through the
world
Exemple :South Korea will spend 2.3
million dollars in the promotion of Open
Source software and GNU/Linux operating
system
70% of web servers
Student’s
Demonstration
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