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A Gentle Instruction on Linux and Distributions

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February 26, 2012
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A Gentle Instruction on Linux and Distributions

Some history lessons and some fairly basic introduction on what's there in a modern Linux distro.

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February 26, 2012
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Transcript

  1. A Gentle Introduction to Linux Part one: Boring history. :|

    Part two: What's in that Linuxy thing?

  2. Once upon a time, There were no operating system.* *

    of course there were some. I'm lying.

  3. Enters “Unix” The OS from Bell Labs

  4. Legal docs are my favorites. Theres always a “glitch” in

    them waiting for someone to discover and use it. The Legal Glitch

  5. “Let's be free” And “free speech” is more important than

    “free beer”.

  6. Enters “GNU Project”

  7. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't

    be big and professional like GNU) for 386(486) AT clones.

  8. I hate history lessons. Oh crap.

  9. Ok, so, what is that linuxy thing after all?

  10. Linux is a “kernel” A “distribution” is an OS which

    uses Linux as kernel.

  11. Linux is flexible.

  12. Linux is flexible.

  13. Linux is flexible.

  14. Linux is flexible.

  15. What's in that thing?

  16. Package Manager

  17. Window Manager

  18. Desktop Environment

  19. Shell(s)

  20. Shell(s)