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

    Most Recent Releases

    kernel.org

    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
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