LINUX
jueves 12 de junio de 2008
HISTORY
WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?
An operating system is the software responsible for exercising control and coordinate the use of hardware among various application programs and the various users. It is a trustee of the resources of system hardware.
In an informal definition is a system which consists of providing a controlled and orderly distribution of processors, memory devices and I / S among various programs competing for them.
Despite all that we use operating systems almost daily, it is difficult to define what is an operating system. In part, this is because operating systems perform two different functions.
Provide a virtual machine, ie an environment where the user can execute programs convenient way, protecting it from the details and complexities of the hardware. Manage computer resources efficiently.
In an informal definition is a system which consists of providing a controlled and orderly distribution of processors, memory devices and I / S among various programs competing for them.
Despite all that we use operating systems almost daily, it is difficult to define what is an operating system. In part, this is because operating systems perform two different functions.
Provide a virtual machine, ie an environment where the user can execute programs convenient way, protecting it from the details and complexities of the hardware. Manage computer resources efficiently.
sábado 7 de junio de 2008
LINUX DISTRIBUTION
Linux is a free distribution system so that you can find all files and programs needed to operate in multiple servers connected to the Internet. The task of gathering all files and programs needed, as well as install and configure on your system, a task can be quite complicated and unfit for many. Thus were born the so-called Linux distributions, businesses and organizations that are dedicated to do the job "dirty" for our benefit and convenience.
A distribution is nothing more that a collection of programs and files, organized and ready for installation. These distributions can be obtained via the Internet, or buying CDs of them, which contain everything needed to install a Linux system fairly complete and in most cases installation of a program that would assist us in the task of a first installation. Almost all major Linux distributors, offering the possibility of lowered their distributions, via FTP (without charge).
There are many and varied distributions created by different companies and organizations at prices affordable enough (if purchased CDs, instead of Baja via FTP), which you should be able to find in computer stores, bookstores. In the worst case always ordering directly over the Internet to businesses and organizations that create them. Sometimes the computer magazines take an edition quite acceptable in any distribution.
After you have a chart with the most common distributions in the line of time. This graph is so big to click on the same version to see the original size.
A distribution is nothing more that a collection of programs and files, organized and ready for installation. These distributions can be obtained via the Internet, or buying CDs of them, which contain everything needed to install a Linux system fairly complete and in most cases installation of a program that would assist us in the task of a first installation. Almost all major Linux distributors, offering the possibility of lowered their distributions, via FTP (without charge).
There are many and varied distributions created by different companies and organizations at prices affordable enough (if purchased CDs, instead of Baja via FTP), which you should be able to find in computer stores, bookstores. In the worst case always ordering directly over the Internet to businesses and organizations that create them. Sometimes the computer magazines take an edition quite acceptable in any distribution.
After you have a chart with the most common distributions in the line of time. This graph is so big to click on the same version to see the original size.
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