What is Linux ?
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan --> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica"> <p>Linus Torvalds, a very cool guy and sometime Screen Saver guest, wrote the Linux operating system while he was a college<br> student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Instead of making it proprietary and trying to sell it, Torvalds gave it away,<br> so anyone who wanted to develop for it could do so. As a result, thousands of people all over the world have worked on<br> Linux, and it has become a very sophisticated, complex, and powerful operating system. It is available as a free download or,<br> for a nominal fee, on CD-ROM. <br> <br> But don't run out and download Linux just because it's free. It's not a consumer operating system, and it requires a very high<br> level of skill to install and run. It's a flavor of the Unix operating system-- on which most of the Internet runs-- and is mainly<br> used by programmers as a development tool. <br> <br> Think of an operating system like the levels of the Titanic. At the bottom there are the steamroom workers who keep the ship<br> moving; they're the BIOS. The next level up, you have the employees and attendants; the hardware. Above that, you have<br> all the decks with passengers; the applications. Like Windows, Linux has applications, but it's as different from Windows as a<br> Mac is from a PC. Windows documents cannot necessarily be read by Linux, and Windows programs cannot run on Linux. Most<br> distributions of Linux don't have a graphical user interface, meaning no friendly buttons, and no pick-and-choose menus. <br> <br> Knowing Unix is a very valuable skill, so if you want to learn, using Linux is the way to go. You'll need to get one of the many<br> different versions of Linux, which are called distributions. Leo recommends the Red Hat Distribution, from Red Hat Software. It<br> seems to be Linus Torvalds' favorite as well. The Red Hat Distribution is one of the easiest to install, and has the most<br> complete set of tools.</p> </font> <p> </p> <form action="http://www.egroups.com/subscribe" method="GET"> <input type="hidden" name="listname" value="avicennax"><table BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" BGCOLOR="#000000"> <tr> <td><table BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" WIDTH="300" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> <tr> <td ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#000000"><font COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="arial,helvetica"><b>Subscribe to Avicenna School O ' Levels E-mail Group</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Enter your e-mail address: </td> </tr> <tr> <td><input type="text" size="21" name="emailaddr" value="your e-mail"><input type="submit" name="SubmitAction" value="Subscribe"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a HREF="http://www.egroups.com/list/avicennax/">avicennax Archive</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font SIZE="-1" FACE="arial,helvetica">An e-group hosted by <a HREF="http://www.egroups.com/">FindMail's eGroups.com</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </form> <p> </p> <p><a href="mailto:aamir_niazi@hotmail.com"><img SRC="emailme.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="125" HEIGHT="72"></a> <br> <br> <a href="index.htm"><img SRC="bth.jpg" BORDER="0" alt="Back to Home" width="138" height="160"></a> <br> </p> <hr> <b> <p align="center">This page hosted by <a HREF="index-2.html"><img SRC="gc_icon.html" BORDER="0" HEIGHT="31" WIDTH="88" ALIGN="CENTER"></a> Get your own <a HREF="index-2.html">Free Homepage</a>.</b> </p> <p><img SRC="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76000020&t=929549976" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1"> <!-- <SERVICE NAME="toto"> --> <script LANGUAGE="javascript"> <!-- window.open('/toto?s=76000020', '_geo_toto', 'width=515,height=125'); // --> </script> <!-- </SERVICE> --> </p> </body> <!-- ARCHIVE by FORTUNECITY.ws --> <center> <div> <br> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=300&height=250&cache=0"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=300&height=250"></script> </div> <br> <br> </center> </html>