Professor Norm Matloff's Beginner's Guide to Installing and Using Linux

by Norman Matloff.

Linux is a form of the Unix operating system. Though originally Unix was used mainly by engineers and scientists and thus was not very familiar to the general public, a lot of what you take for granted on computer systems today began in Unix. A notable example is the Internet—the first major operating system to implement the TCP/IP protocol at the heart of the Internet was Unix, and that led to the general acceptance of the protocol. In the early 1990s, computer science student Linus Torvalds decided to write his own version of Unix, which he called Linux. Other “homegrown” versions of Unix had been written, such as MINIX, but what distinguished Linux was the scale of worldwide participation involved. Torvalds innocently put a message on the Internet asking if anyone wanted to help, and he got a torrent of responses. [via]

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Linux/...

Download File

PDF Finder

Professor Norm Matloff's Beginner's Guide to Installing and Using Linux (2008)

Related Files

Rate this Document

Popular eBooks

ADS

Tag Clouds

Last Download

BookShelf