Chapter One on the history of Linux

Chapter I. about The history of Linux

A lot of Linux books in the previous chapters wrote a lot of things to introduce Linux, but unfortunately the reader has not formally started to enter the world of Linux, which led them to lose some interest in Linux, and the Thick of a book lost.

The history of Linux does need to be understood by the reader, but not knowing it will not affect your future Linux skills. Haha, I actually do not know much about the history of Linux, so the history of Linux in this tutorial will not be involved. If you are interested, then you can search the Internet, a lot of it is enough for you to watch the day. Although I do not want to verbose too much, but about the basic knowledge of Linux, I would like to briefly introduce. It's also my respect for the founder of Linux, Linus Torvalds.

Before introducing the history of Linux, I would like to say something about how you pronounce Linux. I find that my friends have some of the most pronounced types of Linux: "Rick" and "Rick" and "Rick". In fact, the official standard pronunciation is [' li:nэks], because this pronunciation is the founder Linus pronunciation. If you do not know the phonetic transcription, then read into the "Rick". And the author is accustomed to pronounce "in You", of course, you pronounce what, and no one will say you, is completely a person's habit.

Perhaps some readers have learned that Linux and Unix are very similar. Yes, Linux evolved on the basis of UNIX. That was Linus because of the contact with UNIX and then they want to develop a simple system kernel, he developed a simple system kernel is actually Linux. At that time Linus the development of the system kernel to the Internet to provide everyone download, because of its exquisite small, more and more enthusiasts to study it. People embellish the kernel and then become a system. Maybe you've heard of it, Linux is free. In fact, here's free only to say that the Linux kernel is free. On the basis of the Linux kernel, many versions of Linux have been generated.

The Linux distribution says that the simple point is to package the Linux kernel with the application software. The more well-known distributions are: Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Debain, Fedora, SuSE, OpenSUSE, Turbolinux, Bluepoint, Redflag, Xterm, Slackware, etc.

And the author commonly used is Redhat and CentOS, here is necessary to say, in fact, CentOS is based on redhat, online some people say that CentOS is Redhat Enterprise version of the clone. The author of the company's servers are all installed CentOS system, and fairly stable. CentOS can download and install the required packages for free using Yum compared to Redhat, which is quite handy. and redhat to use Yum must buy services.

The author simply introduced a bit of Linux, if you want to learn more about the history of Linux, then please yourself to inquire about the relevant information.

Chapter One on the history of Linux