The Power of Linux

Three Important Pieces of Context

  1. Things change in Linux
    Linux is contantly evolving. no matter how hard to make up-to-date as possible, Course <-/-> Linux
  2. We have repeated some things in the class meterial
  3. We have tried to avoid holy wars
    there are many areas where there are strong preference disagreements in the Linux (and wider open source) community. examples include the best editor: emacs vs. vi; GNOME vs. KDE, etc, we have chosen (when nessary) a paticular alternative to emphasize just to keep thing clean.

Learning Objectives

  • discuss the history and philosophy of Linux
  • describe the Linux community
  • define the common terms associated with Linux
  • discuss the components of a Linux distribution