1. Feeling Linux yourself Dr. Tran, Van Hoai Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering HCMC Uni. of Technology hoai@cse.hcmut.edu.vn

2. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself What is Linux ? UNIX-like operating system Comprised  System utilities  Libraries From GNU Project  Sometimes called GNU Linux Supported by: IBM, Sun, Novell, Microsoft,…

3. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself GNU Project (GNU’s Not Unix) Richard Stallman in 1983 To develop Unix-like OS composed entirely of free software (GNU GPLv1) GNU components: libraries, compilers, text editors, Unix shells, X Window System, kernel (Hurd)

4. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Linux kernel Linus Torvalds in 1991 Based on Minix kernel Linux kernel works with GNU components Allow commercial redistribution (GPLv2)

5. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Growth to today 1996 KDE desktop environment 1997 GNOME 1998 Netscape source code, Mozilla Firefox 2000 StarOffice by Sun, then OpenOffice.org

6. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself And now and future 25% server, 2.8% desktop (IDC, 2004) Expected $38 billion in 2008

7. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Philosophy Free software and open source  Freedom to use without restrictions  Freedom to study software and its source code  Freedom to modify  Freedom to redistribute under certain conditions Interoperability (with other OSs) Portability (on various architectures) Community Commercialization

8. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Linux distributions (distro) To collect separate softwares, including:  Boot loader  Linux kernel  GNU libraries and tools  Command-line shells  Graphical X Window System  Desktop environment  Application software packages

9. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Well-known distros Slackware Debian Redhat, Fedora SuSE (drived from Slackware) Ubuntu (drived from Debian) Knoppix Linspire (drived from Debian)

10. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Homework 6 groups Each group will give a short introduction (~10 slides) on one distro

11. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Now, let start your linux and feel yourself DO IT YOURSELF Start computers with Knoppix Install OpenSuSE 10

12. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself References Internet  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

13. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Can you see the file system ?  Tell me what your computer has ? Can you operate on your file system as Windows ? Can you do it on a terminal ?

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15. Dr. Tran, Van Hoai 2007 Feeling Linux yourself Unix basics Unix file system is NEXT