History of Linux
In 1969, Four programmer Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Rudd Canady & Doug McElroy made a program in Bell labs in year 1969 which was latter known as unix operating system. The operating system and all other functions were written in a higher programming language, C. UNIX was initially found only in very large environments with mainframes and minicomputers. But smaller computers were being developed, and by the end of the 80's, many people had home computers. By that time, there were several versions of UNIX available for the PC, but none of them were truly free and they were all terribly slow, so most people ran MS DOS or Windows 3.1 on their home PCs.
Paul Allen & Bill Gates are the employee of Bell Labs. In 1981, they both started Microsoft and they gave a program named Xenix (1980) but it was flopped. In 1981 they Launched MS-DOS 1.0.
Linus Torvalds, a young man studying computer science at the university of Helsinki, thought it would be a good idea to have freely available academic version of UNIX and made Linux kernel in 1991. Linux is well-known as a stable and reliable platform, providing database and trading services. Today Linux has joined the desktop market.
Companies such as RedHat, SuSE and Mandriva providing packaged Linux distributions.
advantages of Linux:
1-Linux is totally free:
2-Linux is portable to any hardware platform:
3-Linux is more secure than windows.
4-Linux is scalable:
5-Linux uses GNU tools, a set of freely available standard tools for handling the operating system.
In 1969, Four programmer Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Rudd Canady & Doug McElroy made a program in Bell labs in year 1969 which was latter known as unix operating system. The operating system and all other functions were written in a higher programming language, C. UNIX was initially found only in very large environments with mainframes and minicomputers. But smaller computers were being developed, and by the end of the 80's, many people had home computers. By that time, there were several versions of UNIX available for the PC, but none of them were truly free and they were all terribly slow, so most people ran MS DOS or Windows 3.1 on their home PCs.
Paul Allen & Bill Gates are the employee of Bell Labs. In 1981, they both started Microsoft and they gave a program named Xenix (1980) but it was flopped. In 1981 they Launched MS-DOS 1.0.
Linus Torvalds, a young man studying computer science at the university of Helsinki, thought it would be a good idea to have freely available academic version of UNIX and made Linux kernel in 1991. Linux is well-known as a stable and reliable platform, providing database and trading services. Today Linux has joined the desktop market.
Companies such as RedHat, SuSE and Mandriva providing packaged Linux distributions.
advantages of Linux:
1-Linux is totally free:
2-Linux is portable to any hardware platform:
3-Linux is more secure than windows.
4-Linux is scalable:
5-Linux uses GNU tools, a set of freely available standard tools for handling the operating system.
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