INTRODUCTION TO LINUX

Linux is a free operating system  which was created by Linus Torvalds at the university of Helsinky in 1991. Torvalds  started linux by creating its kernel partially by using publically available softwares , Then he release the system to his friends , to the internet and asked them to work with it and enhance it. Today 100’s of software developers around the world contributing software to the linux support. Source code of linux operating system is free. Software available for linux was developed by GNU software FSF (free software foundation ) . features of linux include

Multiuser : multiple users can log on to the same linux machine at the same time through different terminals

Multitasking : user can execute more than one program at a time

Network servers : a variety of software packages are available which helps to use linux for different server applications

Application support : there are different application interfaces , built in support for c  c++ , java etc

Hardware support : Hardware support  of linux operating system is very high