Linux.definition

Invented by Linus Thorvalds in 1991. A UNIX alike operating system free as in beer.

Most Recent Releases

Kernel 2.6 has even more features of a modern multitasking OS than Windows.

SCSI / IDE RAID
O(1) Scheduler
Hyperthreading support
AMD64 support (including no execution protection)
comes with source
ultra portable

Most prominent applications for Linux include: KDE, apache, PHP, AV The help file equivalent in the Linux world is called MAN Pages. If you're ever lost, puzzled how a command works, just type man command.

Easiest way to a compiled kernel:

Download source bzip2
tar -xjvpf linux1.23.tar.bzip2
cd linux1.23
make menuconfig
make dep clean install