tailieunhanh - SUSE Linux 10 for dummies phần 2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'suse linux 10 for dummies phần 2', công nghệ thông tin, hệ điều hành phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 1 What Is SUSE Linux 11 Does Linux really run on any computer Well it runs on almost any computer. Let s see. . . . Nowadays you can get versions of Linux for systems based on Intel 80x86 Pentium and other Intel compatible processors AMD s 64-bit AMD64 processors the Motorola 68000 family Alpha AXPs Sun SPARCs and UltraSPARCs Hewlett-Packard s HP PA-RISC the PowerPC and PowerPC64 processors the MIPS R4x00 and R5x00 even IBM mainframes. multiuser and multitasking these days but when Linux first started in 1994 multiuser and multitasking were big selling points. All the different names that you hear for Linux SUSE Red Hat Debian Fedora Knoppix MEPIS Ubuntu Xandros you name it are actually the names of different Linux distributions. A Linux distribution is basically the Linux kernel the operating system together with a huge collection of applications along with an easy-to-use installation program. By the way most people just say Linux to refer to a specific Linux distribution. Many different Linux distributions exist and each includes the standard Linux operating system and the following major packages The X Window System The graphical user interface. One or more graphical desktops Among the most popular are GNOME and KDE. A collection of applications Linux programs come in the form of ready-to-run software but the source code the commands humans use to tell the computer what to do is included or easily available as is its documentation. Current Linux distributions include a huge selection of software so much that it usually requires multiple CD-ROMs or a single DVD-ROM which this book includes . The development and maintenance of the Linux kernel software packages in a Linux distribution and the Linux distributions themselves are organized as open source projects. In a nutshell open source means you have access to the source code and the right to freely redistribute the software without any restrictions. My .