Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 April 2011
LINUX- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VARIOUS FLAVOURS Part-2
PART 2 will focus in the versions suitable for advanced user
In the 1st part of the post I made an introduction with LINUX for beginners as well as distros suitable for new user and as well as those which can be used in everyday life as easily as Windows as well as other consumer operating systems. This time we will focus more on the advanced versions of LINUX suitably for geeks, programmers as well as for hackers. I will start with Slackware which is my favourite and use it every day.
1) SLACKWARE
Well the golden words here would be it’s the most UNIX like distribution ever, and one of the earliest LINUX distributions to be built upon the LINUX Kernel. The Official Release of Slackware Linux was by Patrick Volkerding. And saw its 1st beta release in April 1993. Slackware is a programmer’s heaven; it includes almost all compilers and development environment we could wish for. Say it C, C++ and java, pearl. It also includes networking utilities, Web server and almost everything you will ever need straigt out of the box. Slackware gives us the option of many desktop environments as well as a stripped down version for implementation as a server.
"THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION FOR PROGRAMMERS BY PROGRAMMER"
More information and reference for advanced operations can be found in this free pdf link
Download SLACKWARE here http://www.slackware.com/getslack/
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Thursday, 3 February 2011
LINUX- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VARIOUS FLAVOURS Part-1
PART 1 will focus in the versions suitable for new user and absolute beginner in Linux
LINUX is probably the most heard word in the present computing world. LINUX and the Free and open source (FOSS) practically took the world by storm. LINUX is a modular UNIX-like operating and derives much of its basic from UNIX and due to this it was the Operating System of choice for servers thanks to its remarkable stability. But now LINUX has grown out of the servers and into the desktop world for everyday use providing an easy to use graphical user interface and MS compatible office applications like word processors, spreadsheets, presentations, and multimedia experience.
The penguin (TUX) has also invaded the mobile devices and all is for the great future!!
Today we are going to look in some of the most important flavours of LINUX suitable for everyday use as well as some of the favourites of the geeks.
1) UBUNTU
An extremely great distro is Debian based and runs with the GNOME user interface. If you are new to LINUX or planning to switch from Windows Os or may be just want to try (Its free after all) this is for you. You get all the essential software from media players to office applications out of box and the software centre provide you thousands of free software if you want to get creative. Low system requirements, support graphics cards and as stable as a rock.
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