History of Linux

Linux was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student. Linux is the first hobby project inspired from Minix, a small UNIX system that is developed by Andrew Tanenbaum. But Linus felt that Minix still has many weaknesses. And from that moment, at the age of 23, Linus began tinkering with Minix kernel. And he began to develop a system that is compatible with the IBM PC. In August 1991, Linux was born Linus 0:01 oprekan results, and on October 5, 1991, Linus announced officially that only Linux can run 0:02 BASH and gcc compiler. In addition, Linus also publish the homemade operating system complete with source code, which was greeted enthusiastically by programmers and developers around the world in order to develop together.

Currently Linux is a UNIX system is very complete, can be used for networking, software development and even for their daily work. Linux is now an alternative operating system that is much cheaper when compared with commercial operating systems (eg Windows 9.x/NT/2000/ME). Linux has developed very fast. It can be possible because Linux is developed by a diverse group of people. This diversity includes the level of knowledge, experience and geography. In order for these groups can communicate quickly and efficiently, the Internet becomes the perfect choice.

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Because the Linux kernel developed by the independent businesses, many applications are available, for example, using the gcc C compiler from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. The compiler is widely used in Hewlett-Packard environment and Sun.

Today, many Linux applications that can be used for office purposes such as for spreadsheet, word processor, database and graphics editor program has a function and a display like Microsoft Office, which is Star Office. In addition, Corel version has been available for Linux and applications like Matlab on Linux known as Scilab.

Linux can be found in a variety of distribution (often called distributions). Distro is a bundle of Linux kernel, along with basic linux system, the installation program, basic tools, and other programs that benefit in accordance with the purpose of making distributions. There are many Linux distributions, including:

•  RedHat, the most popular distribution, at least in Indonesia. RedHat is the first distribution of the installation and operation easy.

•  Debian, the distribution of priority to the stability and reliability, while sacrificing the ease and recency aspects of the program. Debian uses. Deb in the program installation package.

• Slackware, a distribution that had dominated the world of Linux. Almost all of the documentation prepared on Slackware Linux. Two highlights of Slackware is that all of its content (kernel, library or application) is proven. So maybe a bit old but certainly stable. The second because he advocated for installing from source, so any program that we install optimized by our system. This is the reason he did not want to use the binary RPM and up to Slackware 4.0, it still uses libc5 glibc2 not like the others.

• SuSE distribution is very popular with YaST (Yet another Setup Tools) to configure the system. SuSE is the first distribution in which the installation can use the Indonesian language.

• Mandrake, RedHat distro is a variant optimized for pentium. If we use a Pentium computer up, Linux is generally able to walk faster with Mandrake.

• WinLinux, distributions that are designed to be installed on a DOS partition (Windows). So to run it can be click from Windows. WinLinux made as if it is an application program under Windows.

And many other Linux distributions that have been available or that will arise. Until recently, Linux was built by various communities and do not be surprised if a lot of Linux distributions in circulation. Starting from the paid to free, from for beginner to advanced, and usually with many Linux distributions in circulation will make people confused to choose a distro. Imagine, there are hundreds of distributions are created or even thousands. However, slowly but surely, among the Linux distributions have an equal (or even) exceeds the capabilities of a giant family of Operating Systems (Microsoft) and with more ease and more details on hardware support for Linux, Linux will likely be an alternative (or even a system The main operations in the world).

History of Linux this may be useful. Thank you.

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