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Welcome to Linux Community
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What is GNU/Linux?
A free Unix-type operating system developed under the GNU General Public License.
Open source
Popular
Support most of the platforms available
A Short History of UNIX
Multics, AT&T Bell Lab, GE, MIT
1969, UNIX, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
1973, Rewrite UNIX with C
Berkeley UNIX(BSD UNIX)
Commercial products
SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO UNIX
What are the benefits of Linux?
Linux can give you:
A modern, very stable, multi-user, multitasking environment.
Advanced graphical user interface. Linux uses a standard, network-transparent X-windowing system with a "window manager" (typically KDE or GNOME but several are available).
The graphical desktop under Linux can be made to look like MS Windows (or probably ANY other graphical user interface of your choice).
Linux Distros
A Linux distribution, often simply distribution or distro, is a member of the Linux family of Unix-like computer operating systems.
Distros mainly based on ‘Look and Feel’ and Applications
File System
Windows uses letters of the alphabet to represent different devices and different hard disk partitions. Under Windows, you need to know what volume (C:, D:,...) a file resides on to select it, the file's physical location is part of it's name.
In Linux all directories are attached to the root directory, which is identified by a forward-slash, "/". - root.
For example, below are some second-level directories: