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Linux Introduction Slides 17 - 23 (7 pages)
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page 1: Linux is an open source Unix-like OS (behaves similar to Unix). brief characteristics of Unix Linux is compatible to the POSIX standard. brief characteristics of POSIX page 2: There are many Unix variants from different companies: Apple, Sun, IBM, HP and even Microsoft. page 3: Linux is developed along this line. page 4: Historically there are two separate initiatives: GNU and Linux To be more precise: GNU/Linux Linux: OS kernel GNU: many user programs Therefore many distros page 5: Distros can be divided into different categories. for server: RHEL, Fedora, CentOS for user: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint for workplace: Suse specialized distros: Kali Linux for security testing page 6: HPC: all Top 500 supercomputers use Linux Popular desktop Linux distros: Ubuntu, Linux Mint ... page 7: Which Linux distro should I use? It depends on your needs. Available software packages, support and maintenance are also important.
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