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New LINUX Operating System (19202B1020)

Linux is an open-source operating system like Windows, iOS, and Mac OS. It powers popular platforms like Android. It manages communication between software and hardware. In 1991, Linus Torvalds started developing the Linux kernel as a free version of Unix for his computer. Key components of Linux include the kernel, init system, daemons, and graphical server. Popular Linux distributions include Linux Mint, Manjaro, Debian, Ubuntu, Antergos, Solus, Fedora, Elementary OS, and OpenSUSE.

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New LINUX Operating System (19202B1020)

Linux is an open-source operating system like Windows, iOS, and Mac OS. It powers popular platforms like Android. It manages communication between software and hardware. In 1991, Linus Torvalds started developing the Linux kernel as a free version of Unix for his computer. Key components of Linux include the kernel, init system, daemons, and graphical server. Popular Linux distributions include Linux Mint, Manjaro, Debian, Ubuntu, Antergos, Solus, Fedora, Elementary OS, and OpenSUSE.

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Vidyalankar Polytechnic, Wadala, Mumbai-400 037

Department of Information Technology


Aim: LINUX operating system
Siddhesh Gite (19202B1020)
IF5IB

Features of Linux Operating System


Just like Windows, iOS, and Mac OS, Linux is an Bootloader –  The software that manages the boot
operating system. In fact, one of the most popular process of your computer. For most users, this will
simply be a splash screen that pops up and
platforms on the planet, Android, is powered by the
eventually goes away to boot into the operating
Linux operating system. An operating system is
system.
software that manages all of the hardware resources
associated with your desktop or laptop. To put it 1. Kernel – This is the one piece of the whole that is actually
simply, the operating system manages the called ?Linux?. The kernel is the core of the system and manages
communication between your software and your the CPU, memory, and peripheral devices. The kernel is the
lowest level of the OS.
hardware. Without the operating system (OS), the 2. Init system – This is a sub-system that
software wouldn?t function. bootstraps the user space and is charged with
controlling daemons. One of the most widely used
HISTORY:- In 1991, Linus Torvalds a student at the init systems is systemd? which also happens to be
university of Helsinki, Finland, thought to have a one of the most controversial. It is the init system
freely available academic version of Unix started that manages the boot process, once the initial
writing its own code. Later this project became the
booting is handed over from the bootloader (i.e.,
Linux kernel. He wrote this program specially for his
own PC as he wanted to use Unix 386 Intel computer GRUB or GRand Unified Bootloader).
but couldn't afford it. He did it on MINIX using 3. Daemons – These are background services
GNU C compiler. GNU C compiler is still the main (printing, sound, scheduling, etc.) that either start
choice to compile Linux code but other compilers are up during boot or after you log into the desktop.
also used like Intel C compiler. 4. Graphical server – This is the sub-system that
He started it just for fun but ended up with such a displays the graphics on your monitor. It is
large project. Firstly he wanted to name it as 'Freax' commonly referred to as the X server or just X.
but later it became 'Linux'.

VERSIOS OF LINUX:-
LINUX MINT
MANJARO
DEBIAN
UBUNTU
ANTERGOS
SOLUS
FEDORA
ELEMENTARY OS
OPENSUSE

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