An important thing to emerge from the GNU project has been the GNU Public License (GPL). This license explicitly states that the software being released is free and that no one can ever take away these freedoms. It is acceptable to take the software and resell it,...
Each company that sells a Linux distribution of its own will be quick to tell you that its kernel is better than others. How can a company make this claim? The answer comes from the fact that each company maintains its own patch set. In order to make sure that the...
Linux has hit the mainstream. A quick walk through any local major computer and electronics retail store will show this—the software offerings include boxed versions of various Linux distributions, and the hardware offerings include systems or appliances that use...
The Main difference between Windows and Linux is that, Windows was designed according to the “one computer, one desk, one user” vision of Microsoft’s co founder Bill Gates. For the sake of discussion, we’ll call this philosophy single-user. In this arrangement, two...
