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Linux is open source, which means we are free to download, edit its source codes and share. GNU General Public License ensures Linux remains free and standardized. Like most popular versions of UNIX, Linux is also POSIX-compliant (Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments). Linux is highly stable, fast and in its simplest format it can run on only 2MB of RAM. Although there is only one standard version of Linux, different companies and groups have packaged Linux and its softwares in different ways to build different distributions (in sort distros). Distributions like SUSE, Arch, Red Hat, Ubuntu etc are designed to satisfy any user needs and many aimed at providing comprehensive solutions & support for any tasks. Almost all Linux distributions provide option to run it as a Live-CD, so that we can run and experience complete Linux without even installing it. Linux offers many window-managers and desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, I3 etc which are hig...

WHAT IS LINUX? People often consider Linux as a complete operating system, but technically it is an operating system kernel, which is the part originally developed by Linus Torvalds. WHAT IS GNU/LINUX? Linux is a kernel which makes system hardware usable by providing an interface to the operating system, but only cosidering linux is of no use. We need an operating system with bunch of applications which would use the hardware resources by the help of kernel to get our jobs done. Richard Stallman's free software foundation had created many softwares but what they were missing was the kernel, which Torvald had developed. So they merged to get a complete operational OS, which is known as GNU/Linux today. GNU/Linux is licenced under GNU General Public License(GPL) which allows distribution and sale of possibly modified and unmodified versions of Linux but requires that all those copies be released under the same license and be accompanied by the complete correspoding source co...