2007-01-02 20:14:36 · 6 answers · asked by nagai.s.bala murali 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel, at the heart of all Linux systems, is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. It is this kernel that forms the base around which a Linux operating system is developed. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. More information on the kernel can be found at our sister site, LinuxHQ and at the official Linux Kernel Archives. The current full-featured version is 2.6 (released December 2003) and development continues.
More Reference : http://www.linux.org/
2007-01-02 20:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by ammu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It aims to be a complete, general-purpose operating system that contains only free and open source software.[1] Fedora Core is derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution, and it is intended to replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux aimed towards home users. Support for Fedora comes from the greater community (Red Hat staff work on it, but Red Hat does not provide official support for Fedora)
2007-01-02 20:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by Rajesh.T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linux refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel. Linux kernel is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software as well as user generated software; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
2007-01-02 20:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linux is an operating system ( such as windows )
But it's free and open for any programmer to add programs and updates for your linux and it's free to download
Linux is more secured than windows specially in Servers and networks
2007-01-02 20:18:32 · answer #4 · answered by P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linux is a free and redistributable Operating System.
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
2007-01-02 20:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Robert W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"the linux" ?
Linux is an operating system.
It is open source.
If you want support though you can either buy it or use the open forums.
2007-01-02 20:18:25 · answer #6 · answered by Tempest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋