NET140 - Week One

Chapter One Reading Review - What is Linux and Distributions

For week 1's reading, it introduced the Linus OS and the different options available for Linux. The article was a little more detailed than the book, but both provided good information.

What I learned from the reading was that there are a lot of benefits to choosing Linux. It's free, which is excellent! Who doesn't like free things? Also, it was described as very reliable and stable. Most people don't attempt to use Linux because they don't want to learn a new environment and like the already standard set up that Windows or Apple offer. However, after reading, I think Linux sounds like an OS to try.

Linux has been around since the 1990s. It was developed and released by Linus Torvalds in 1991, who had released the Linux OS as open source. It was primarily a command-based system through the shell, but not as much anymore with the modern development offered through different distributions (a.k.a. distros). Some distributions are Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Arch Linus, Deepin, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE. Distributions are essentially customized Linux OS that suit the user's preferences.

The Linux OS comprises of the Bootloader, kernel, daemons, shell, graphical server (commonly called x server or x), desktop environment and Applications.