What is an open source operating system

Open source operating system is the English abbreviation open source operating system. It is the operating system software that exposes the source code. You can follow the Open source Protocol (GNU) for use, compilation, and republishing. Under the GNU agreement, anyone can use it freely to control how the software works.

Describes the Linux operating system, which is known as the International Open source, and the Linux operating system is also a typical Open-source system representative of free software and open source code development. In modern times, Linux operating systems are the most open source operating system, in the network servers, high-performance computers and mobile devices to shine, in the office area has also made great achievements.

Open source and free customization are the main features of the Open-source system, but it is also a drawback of the open-source system because it must be supported by some hardware vendors to work properly with open source systems, and it is also difficult to adapt to the drivers and software. All this requires users to choose from their own circumstances before choosing to use open source operating system.

Many operating systems are developed based on the Linux kernel. The Linux Foundation (Linux Community) is responsible for the development, distribution, and maintenance of the common versions of the "Linux kernel" official (official) or backbone. For Linux kernel based operating system developers, you can choose a Linux kernel version as the kernel of their own operating system, if you want to modify the skeleton version to form their own branch kernel version, you must be part of the revision of the changes in time to the backbone of the maintenance manager, to obtain their approval of the revision, and register in the backbone Linux kernel, which eventually makes this branched kernel version a member of the Linux kernel family.