1. Introduction of Linux Course: COSC 513 Student: Liang He Prof: Dr. Morteza Anvari

2. Contents  Linux History  Linux Branches  Properties of Linux  Linux Distribution  Software on Linux  Reference

3. Linux History  Linux was initially created as a hobby project by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland.  1991, the first version 0.02 was released by Linus.  Version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released in 1994.  The current full-featured version is 2.4 (released January 2001) and development continues.

4. Linux Branches  Linux development has split into two different branches: 1.0 & 1.1 --1.0 is supposed to be a more stable, dependable version of Linux --1.1is a more daring, quicker developing and therefore (unfortunately) more buggy version of Linux.

5. Properties of Linux(1)  Linux is free -- Free download, free distribution, free update and free available source code  Linux is portable to any hardware platform -- runs on many different CPUs, not just Intel  Linux was made to keep on running -- Linux system run without rebooting all the time

6. Properties of Linux(2)  Linux is secure and versatile -- The security model used in Linux is based on the Unix idea of security, which is known to be robust and of proven quality.  The Linux OS and Linux applications have very short debug-times -- both errors and people to fix them are found very quickly

7. Linux Distribution  RedHat Linux  Linux Mandrake  Corel Linux  Debian/GNU  Slackware  SuSE Linux  Caldera OpenLinux

8. Software on Linux (1)  LILO: --Linux Loader, when you have one and more other operating systems.  Office Suite: --Like the microsoft office. Two Popular are Corel's WordPerfect Suite and Sun ’ s StarOffice  Text Editors: --Emacs Editor is a very popular text editor in the Linux world

9. Software on Linux (2)  Emulators : -- allow users to run DOS or Windows files directly in the Linux system.Two popular DOS emulators are DosEmu and Xdos, Windows emulation is Wine.  X Window System : -- allows graphical interface on the Linux system.

10. Reference  http://espc22.murdoch.edu.au/~stewart/guide/section2_4_ 2.html http://espc22.murdoch.edu.au/~stewart/guide/section2_4_ 2.html  http://library.thinkquest.org/C003740/distributions.html http://library.thinkquest.org/C003740/distributions.html  http://library.thinkquest.org/C003740/software.html http://library.thinkquest.org/C003740/software.html  http://www.seul.org/docs/section3.3 http://www.seul.org/docs/section3.3  http://www.xplinux.biz/support/history.htm http://www.xplinux.biz/support/history.htm  http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_intro/index.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_intro/index.html

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