Introduction of Linux Course COSC 513 Student Liang

Introduction of Linux Course: COSC 513 Student: Liang He Prof: Dr. Morteza Anvari

Contents ¬Linux History ¬Linux Branches ¬Properties of Linux ¬Linux Distribution ¬Software on Linux ¬Reference

Linux History ¬ Linux was initially created as a hobby project by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. ¬ 1991, the first version 0. 02 was released by Linus. ¬ Version 1. 0 of the Linux Kernel was released in 1994. ¬ The current full-featured version is 2. 4 (released January 2001) and development continues.

Linux Branches ¬ Linux development has split into two different branches: 1. 0 & 1. 1 --1. 0 is supposed to be a more stable, dependable version of Linux --1. 1 is a more daring, quicker developing and therefore (unfortunately) more buggy version of Linux.

Properties of Linux(1) ¬Linux is free --Free download, free distribution, free update and free available source code ¬Linux is portable to any hardware platform --runs on many different CPUs, not just Intel ¬Linux was made to keep on running -- Linux system run without rebooting all the time

Properties of Linux(2) ¬Linux is secure and versatile --The security model used in Linux is based on the Unix idea of security, which is known to be robust and of proven quality. ¬The Linux OS and Linux applications have very short debug-times -- both errors and people to fix them are found very quickly

Linux Distribution ¬ Red. Hat Linux ¬ Linux Mandrake ¬ Corel Linux ¬ Debian/GNU ¬ Slackware ¬ Su. SE Linux ¬ Caldera Open. Linux

Software on Linux (1) ¬ LILO: --Linux Loader, when you have one and more other operating systems. ¬ Office Suite: --Like the microsoft office. Two Popular are Corel's Word. Perfect Suite and Sun’s Star. Office ¬ Text Editors: --Emacs Editor is a very popular text editor in the Linux world

Software on Linux (2) ¬ Emulators: --allow users to run DOS or Windows files directly in the Linux system. Two popular DOS emulators are Dos. Emu and Xdos, Windows emulation is Wine. ¬ X Window System: --allows graphical interface on the Linux system.

Reference ¬ http: //espc 22. murdoch. edu. au/~stewart/guide/section 2_4_ 2. html ¬ http: //library. thinkquest. org/C 003740/distributions. html ¬ http: //library. thinkquest. org/C 003740/software. html ¬ http: //www. seul. org/docs/section 3. 3 ¬ http: //www. xplinux. biz/support/history. htm ¬ http: //www. faqs. org/docs/linux_intro/index. html

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