LINUX F ree operating system Created by Linus Torvalds when he was a student at the University of Helsinki in 1991 First released the system to his friends, community of “hackers” on the Internet.

ADVANTAGES Linux’s best assets are its price, its scalable, its reliability, and the freedom of changes, enhance it. The ability to reuse any of the code as you choose. The capability of using inexpensive hardware Compatible add-on applications that are free to download and use.

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In 2003, Red Hat, Inc. changed the name of its distribution from Red Hat Linux to Fedora Core. It then set up Fedora to be: Sponsored by Red Hat Supported by the Linux community Inclusive of high-quality, cutting-edge open source technology Red Hat Inc. and Fedora 15

LINUX FEATURES Multi-User Multitasking Hardware support Network servers Graphical user interface (X Window System) Application support

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CONCLUSION 1. More than 13,000 individual software packages 2. Connect your computers to a LAN or the Internet. 3. Create documents and publish your work on paper or on the Web. 4. Work with multimedia content to manipulate images, play music files, view video, and even master and burn your own CDs and DVDs. 5. Play games individually or over a network Communicate over the Internet using a variety of Web tools for browsing, chatting, transferring files, participating in newsgroups, and sending and receiving e- mail. 6. Protect your computing resources by having Fedora or RHEL act as a firewall or a router to protect against intruders coming in through public networks. 7. Configure a computer to act as a network server, such as a print server, Web server, file server, mail server, news server, and a database server.