Sources of Linux
1) In 1984, the GNU Engineering and Free Software Foundation was founded
development of a completely free, Unix-like GNU operating system, but no source code for UNIX systems
= = Create an open source version of the UNIX business
= = Create GPL
= = Software license follows open source principles
2) 1991 Linuxtorvalds Create an open source similar UNIX kernel code, published under the GPL---system named Linux
3) today, Linux kernel +GNU application = Full Linux Open source code
1991 years later the birth of Linux
RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, red flag
Rehat Enterprise Linux 2\3\4\5\6\7 released by Red Hat Corporation
Suse Linux 12 was released by Novell Corporation
Debian Linux 6.0 released by the Debian maintenance community
Ubuntu 12.10 released and maintained by the Ubuntu community
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Linux distributions and their connections and differences