LINUX

HISTORY

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GNU/Linux

Since 1984, Richard Stallman and many volunteers are trying to create a free operating system with an operation similar to UNIX, recreating all the components necessary to have a functional operating system that would become the GNU operating system. In the early 1990, after six years, GNU had many important tools lists, such as text editors, compilers, debuggers, shells etc., except for the central component: the core. With the emergence of the Linux kernel, this gap was filled and the operating system came with the Linux kernel in conjunction with the GNU tools. In this way, Stallman tried or indicates that this operating system is a "modified version" of the GNU system and therefore must have the name GNU / Linux. This designation would resolve the confusion between the core and the entire operating system that can lead to, and indeed has led the Linux name alone. Stallman also hopes that with the contribution of the name GNU, giving the GNU project he heads the recognition they deserve cree, for creating applications system essential to be an operating system compatible with UNIX.
Richard Stallman has acknowledged that since there Linux development of a specific nucleus of the GNU Project (Hurd) is no longer a priority. That explains why, after two decades since the announcement of the GNU Project, is not only finished a system GNU.
Some Linux distributions support this designation, and include GNU / Linux in their names, this is the case of Debian GNU / Linux or GNU / LinEx. The Debian Project also exists Debian GNU / Hurd and GNU variants that combine applications GNU system with those nuclei. Other distributions like Ubuntu, named only choose Linux
Although most users (with some experience) and generalizes to all distros like GNU / Linux, there are people who use an umbrella term disinformation wrong, calling the entire free software or open source "Linux".Linux is very important today.
Sometimes the KDE project has used a third name: GNU / Linux / X to emphasize the three projects that support its desktop environment.

WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

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An operating system is the software responsible for exercising control and coordinate the use of hardware among various application programs and the various users. It is a trustee of the resources of system hardware.

In an informal definition is a system which consists of providing a controlled and orderly distribution of processors, memory devices and I / S among various programs competing for them.
Despite all that we use operating systems almost daily, it is difficult to define what is an operating system. In part, this is because operating systems perform two different functions.

Provide a virtual machine, ie an environment where the user can execute programs convenient way, protecting it from the details and complexities of the hardware. Manage computer resources efficiently.

LINUX DISTRIBUTION

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Linux is a free distribution system so that you can find all files and programs needed to operate in multiple servers connected to the Internet. The task of gathering all files and programs needed, as well as install and configure on your system, a task can be quite complicated and unfit for many. Thus were born the so-called Linux distributions, businesses and organizations that are dedicated to do the job "dirty" for our benefit and convenience.

A distribution is nothing more that a collection of programs and files, organized and ready for installation. These distributions can be obtained via the Internet, or buying CDs of them, which contain everything needed to install a Linux system fairly complete and in most cases installation of a program that would assist us in the task of a first installation. Almost all major Linux distributors, offering the possibility of lowered their distributions, via FTP (without charge).
There are many and varied distributions created by different companies and organizations at prices affordable enough (if purchased CDs, instead of Baja via FTP), which you should be able to find in computer stores, bookstores. In the worst case always ordering directly over the Internet to businesses and organizations that create them. Sometimes the computer magazines take an edition quite acceptable in any distribution.
After you have a chart with the most common distributions in the line of time. This graph is so big to click on the same version to see the original size.