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Well, earlier today I received my Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition, so as I was talking about how cool it was on Chatters, a discussion started, then I asked the slightly intriguing question - "What IS Linux?", this returned a simple answer, "a kernel".
Now from General Knowledge a kernel is something that connects an application to hardware, so basically it tells what the hardware to do.
Ubuntu is a brand which makes use of Linux (the kernel). Right now, I basically want all you Linux users/scientists, etc, etc to help inform me more about Linux,
I was pointed towards PirateHead but I was too afraid to talk to him due to his opensource traps (he basically loves to open source).
So anyway, tell me all you know about Linux, smarten me up.
P.S: I have been messing with Linux while running it virtually through a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) and it looks good so far, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10.
Now from General Knowledge a kernel is something that connects an application to hardware, so basically it tells what the hardware to do.
Ubuntu is a brand which makes use of Linux (the kernel). Right now, I basically want all you Linux users/scientists, etc, etc to help inform me more about Linux,
I was pointed towards PirateHead but I was too afraid to talk to him due to his opensource traps (he basically loves to open source).
So anyway, tell me all you know about Linux, smarten me up.
P.S: I have been messing with Linux while running it virtually through a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) and it looks good so far, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10.
Posted by Haywire on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 08:25AM
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#4 Stupot:
There's too much to know about linux to explain it all on one post on the byond forums.
However, I will give this one word of advice. Whichever distro you choose to try, the first thing you need to do is learn that distro's package manager. It's easy to make installing packages complicated without it and it's easy to install packages that don't quite work right without it. Learn the package manager (for Ubuntu it's apt-get/synaptic).
Thursday, May 07, 2009 08:03AM
#3 Ihateblackpeople:
Cool!
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 04:58PM
#2 Haywire:
Danial.Beta wrote:
> Technically, Linux is only the kernel, as you mentioned, but, Linux is accepted as a term for the full OS in a completed package, such as Ubuntu. However, the technical term for the entire OS(I believe) is GNULinux. GNULinux just doesn't have the same ring to it. Ubuntu is often called a "distro", which is a completed bundle of applications on top of a kernel to make a working system with at least a base of functionality that the average user has come to expect from his system(be that a Desktop, a laptop, a netbook, a server, a router, or a refrigerator(yes, there are refrigerators that run Linux). Each may come with very different sets of software on top of the kernel, but they are all completed operating systems for their devices.
Thanks a lot, that helps quite a bit but I still want to know a lot more and it seems as if researching is the basis of what I want.
Thank you.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 01:39PM
#1 Danial.Beta:
Technically, Linux is only the kernel, as you mentioned, but, Linux is accepted as a term for the full OS in a completed package, such as Ubuntu. However, the technical term for the entire OS(I believe) is GNULinux. GNULinux just doesn't have the same ring to it. Ubuntu is often called a "distro", which is a completed bundle of applications on top of a kernel to make a working system with at least a base of functionality that the average user has come to expect from his system(be that a Desktop, a laptop, a netbook, a server, a router, or a refrigerator(yes, there are refrigerators that run Linux). Each may come with very different sets of software on top of the kernel, but they are all completed operating systems for their devices.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 01:34PM