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Linux is an UNIX-like operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The current full-featured version is 2.2 (released January 25, 1999), and development continues.

Linux is developed under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. This however, doesn't mean that Linux and it's assorted distributions are free -- companies and developers may charge money for it as long as the source code remains available. Linux may be used for a wide variety of purposes including networking, software development, and as an end-user platform. Linux is often considered an excellent, low-cost alternative to other more expensive operating systems.

Due to the very nature of Linux's functionality and availability, it has become quite popular worldwide and a vast number of software programmers have taken Linux's source code and adapted it to meet their individual needs. At this time, there are dozens of ongoing projects for porting Linux to various hardware configurations and purposes.

Linux has an official mascot, the Linux Pengiun, which was selected by Linus Torvalds to represent the image he associates with the operating system he created.

Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 is no match for any UNIX operating system, not even the non-commercial BSDs or Linux.

                           by      John Kirch
                                    Networking Consultant and Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT)

Since people say Linux will be the strong opponent of Windows NT, so if compare them each other, then which platform will win?  The UNIX versue NT Organization has a most complete compare. For the whole story, please visit this site.

Word processing :

    KOffice, StarOffice, Word Perfect

Window System :

    XFree86, it's X-window with many window managers.

    Xview, it looks like  OpenWindow of Sun company.

Network :

    Netscape, FTP server, HTTP server, DNS, NFS, Telnet, POP3, SMTP etc.

Complier/Language :

    Perl, Python, C/C++, SmallTalk, TK... it's more than Win NT.

Compatibility :

WinE : window emulator, it can run Microsoft Windows's application under Linux.

Support Fat and FAT32, it can read Windows's partitions. but Windows 98 or NT can't read Linux's partitions.

 

Why a Penguin?

The logo of Linux is a penguin, do you know why Linus chose it? Let's read this story. ( From site www.linux.org )

            Designed by Lin Jinbo   ( Paul )
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Last updated: 07.22.99.