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What is LINUX?

What is Linux?

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  • Daily speaking: The Linux Operating system is a UNIX like and UNIX compatible Operating system.
  • Linux is a Kernel on which many different programs can run.
  • The shell (bash, sh, ksh, csh, tcsh and many more) is one such program

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  • Actually, for it to be an OS, it is supplied with GNU software and other additions giving us the name GNU/Linux.

 

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  • Linux has a multiuser platform at its base which means permissions and security comes easy.

 

Linux comes in different distributions, dialects or, say, flavours.

  • Uppmax runs CentOS

 

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