Chapter 1 . Starting (Graphic web design) with Linux 7 .
Chapter 1 . Starting with Linux 7 . Applications Although no Linux distribution includes all of them, there are literally thousands of games, office productivity tools, Web browsers, chat windows, multimedia players, and other applications available for Linux. . Programming tools Including programming utilities for creating applications and libraries for implementing specialty interfaces. . Server features Enabling you to offer services from your Linux computer to another computer on the network. In other words, while Linux includes Web browsers to view Web pages, it can also be the computer that serves up Web pages to others. Popular server features include Web, mail, database, printer, file, DNS, and DHCP servers. Once Linus Torvalds and friends had a working Linux kernel, pulling together a complete open source operating system was possible. The reason this could be done was because so much of the available free software was: . Covered by the GNU Public License (GPL) or similar license. That allowed the entire operating system to be freely distributed, provided that some guidelines were followed relating to how the source code for that software was made available going forward. . Based on UNIX-like systems. Clones of virtually all the other user-level components of a UNIX system had been created. Those and other utilities and applications were built to run on UNIX or other UNIX-like systems. Linux has become the culmination of the open source software movement. But the traditions of sharing code and building communities that made Linux possible started years before Linux was born. You could argue that it began in a comfortable think tank known as Bell Laboratories. What s So Cool About Linux? If you have not used Linux before, you should expect a few things to be different from other operating systems. Here is a brief list of some features that you might find cool about using Linux: . No rebooting to install Uptime is valued as a matter of pride (remember, Linux and other UNIX systems are most often used as servers, which are expected to stay up 24×7). After the original installation, you can install or remove most software without having to reboot your computer. . Start/stop services without interrupting others You can start and stop individual services (such as Web, file, and e-mail services) without rebooting or even interrupting the work of any other users or features of the computer. In other words, you should not have to reboot your computer every time someone sneezes.
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