Entering the world of GNU/Linux
Linux is a UNIX like operating system and has been one of the most popular proponents of free open source software. Even though popularly GNU/Linux is called Linux operating system, but the name is somewhat misleading because Linux is the name of the kernel of the operating system, which was created by Finnish hacker Linus Torvalds as a hobby project, infact in the first message posted on newsgroup announcing his project he had the following view about Linux becoming big: “It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have .” . The entire GNU/Linux operating system is based upon host of open source tools and libraries of which GNU tools and libraries form a significant chunk (started by Richard Matthew Stallman (rms) one of the most popular MIT based hacker and founder of free software foundation, rms has iconic status in free and open source world), hence the name GNU/Linux.
Let’s look at some of the advantage Linux enjoys over its popular closed source commercial counterpart Microsoft Windows:
Security: This is probably one of the most important advantage of Linux over windows, being open source any vulnerabilities detected are patched almost immediately as opposed to windows. Also like UNIX because of its extremely robust architecture and not granting root level access to all the users, there are very few viruses (almost non existent) to worry about unlike Windows on which hundreds of new viruses are created almost everyday.
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