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The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds

The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds

Ten Reasons to Dump Windows and Use Linux - PCWorld Business Center Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you'll need to find something different to use for your servers. Whether it's switching from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 or to Linux-based servers--or changing out tired and faulty Windows Vista desktops for the alien Windows 7 or something more user-friendly--Linux provides you with freedom and freedom of choice. You might believe that dumping Windows and switching to Linux is a difficult task, but the change in thought and the perception of that switch are the most difficult. If you've attempted an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, you know what pain is. Business owners find that Linux, for what was once a "niche" operating system, provides the necessary components and services on which many rely. 1. In the past, businesses used the lack of commercial support as the main reason for staying with Windows.

Celebrating 20 Years of Linux [INFOGRAPHIC] You've come a long way, Tux the Penguin. The Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of the famous FOSS operating system, Linux — or GNU-slash-Linux, depending on how hard-line a fossie you're talking to — with a slew of special events, both online and IRL. Linux enthusiasts can check out the official anniversary site for details. The Foundation is also sharing a few other exciting news items, including: The new High Availability working group, which will "help define the open-source HA stack and prioritize features." The landmark anniversary celebration is replete with digital goodies. You might also enjoy the commemorative infographic and video (titled The Story of Linux and featuring Richard Stallman in a cameo as St. Click to see larger version.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, originally developed by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002. It takes some of the principles of Unix, developed in the same research group, but extends these to a networked environment with graphical terminals. The name Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a reference to the Ed Wood 1959 cult science fiction Z-movie Plan 9 from Outer Space.[5] Also, Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, is presumably a reference to Wood's film Glen or Glenda. The system continues to be used and developed by operating system researchers and hobbyists.[6][7] History[edit] Plan 9 replaced Unix as Bell Labs's primary platform for operating systems research. A user and development community, including current and former Bell Labs personnel, produced minor daily releases in form of ISO images. Design concepts[edit] —Sape J. Its designers state that: 9P protocol[edit] Union directories and namespaces[edit] /proc[edit] /net[edit]

Open Source and Linux - HP Linux Home With proven abilities to transform business operations, Linux operates side by side with HP-UX and Microsoft Windows in complex heterogeneous environments. And for more than a decade, the platform of choice for running business-critical Linux has been HP. With extensive experience delivering Linux solutions, you can trust HP to help you achieve greater cost-efficiency, scalability, reliability and performance than ever before—both in the data center and the cloud. Suitable for large enterprises through smaller businesses, HP’s open-source community and commercial Linux distributions run on standards-based HP Converged Infrastructure—able to deliver any workload, anywhere, at any time.

Installing the latest Wine on Ubuntu Installing WineHQ packages If you have previously installed a Wine package from another repository, please remove it and any packages that depend on it (e.g., wine-mono, wine-gecko, winetricks) before attempting to install the WineHQ packages, as they may cause dependency conflicts. If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture (if you haven't already): sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 Add the repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds Update packages: sudo apt-get update Then install (example for the development branch): sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel If you prefer to use the Staging branch, replace `winehq-devel` with `winehq-staging` in the line above. If apt-get complains about missing dependencies, install them, then repeat the last two steps (update and install). If you have previously used the distro packages, you will notice some differences in the WineHQ ones: Files are installed to /opt/wine-devel. Installing without Internet Compiling WoW64

Linux-drivers.org - Linux Hardware Compatibility Lists & Linux Drivers 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications | Ubuntu Linux Help The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available! I develop web sites, so this list tends to focus on applications which support that type of work. The majority of these applications can be installed by either apt-get or synaptic, however I’ve included the web site addresses of these applications so that you can obtain more information. This list took a long time to put together and I tried to keep it in alphabetical order for you. – You might want to bookmark this and come back later. Enjoy! Ardour: (

UNIX / Linux Tutorial for Beginners A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands. Introduction to the UNIX Operating System What is UNIX? Files and processes The Directory Structure Starting an UNIX terminal Tutorial One Listing files and directories Making Directories Changing to a different Directory The directories . and .. Recommended UNIX and Linux books If you wish to continue learning Unix, here is a list of good Unix and Linux books, ranging from beginners to advanced.

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