1. Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 1 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux

2. ● Operating System ● Free and open source ● Developped by fans Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 2 May 12, 2005 Presentation History Details Advantages / Disadvantages Distributions Summary Gnu / Linux

3. ● 1969Unix (AT&T Bell lab) ● 1984Gnu (MIT Ai lab) ● 1987Minix (Amsterdam) ● 1991Linux (Helsinki) ● 1994Kernel 1.0 (1 st stable release) ● 1996Kernel 2.0 (1 st major evolution) ● 2001Kernel 2.4 (2 nd major evolution) ● 2003Kernel 2.6 (present version) Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 3 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux

4. ● Gnu tools +Linux kernel: GNU/Linux ● Kernel versions ● Stable (2.2.0) ● For development (2.3.0) ● OS = Linux distribution ● Many graphic environments Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 4 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux

5. Advantages ● Free ● Multi-architectures ● Offers many choices ● Easy to update ● Multiusers ● Little affected by viruses Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 5 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux Disadvantages ● Not always user friendly ● Hardware support ● No DirectX support ● Software packages compatibility

6. ● rpm ➢ RedHat ➢ Mandriva ➢ Suse ● tgz ➢ Slackware Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 6 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux ● deb ➢ Debian ➢ Ubuntu ● ebuild ➢ Gentoo Distributions: 4 main packages types

7. ● As usable as Microsoft OS ● Good platform for programming ● Offers a lot of liberty ● Free Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 7 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux

8. Gaël Cuenot / IUP1 GMI 8 May 12, 2005 Gnu / Linux Thank you for your attention !