Linux, shminux
I keep waiting for the day Linux becomes easy to use for the average person and not just college computer science graduates who have probably been weaned on it. I’ve purposely avoided the Linux topic until now, but some feedback from my recent Vista column plus a recent article in PCMag, “Diary of a Linux Virgin,” has prompted me to speak up.
Linux is an operating system that is open source, meaning the software is public and available to all to download, use, alter, edit and contribute to, unlike Microsoft’s Windows, which is proprietary and comes from a software vendor.
The truth of the matter is, as an underlying base technology, you either have something that is Microsoft Windows-based, or you have something that is Unix-based.
So what is Unix, and does it relate to Linux? Guess what - Linux is actually based on Unix. Most of your Windows alternatives are in fact based on Unix. The real question is whether you want a Unix-based OS.
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