“The most unfortunate thing is that India still seems to believe in proprietary solutions. In India, open source code software will have to come and stay in a big way for the benefit of our billion people.” —Our Ex-President Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam
LINUX
Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
Richard Matthew Stallman
(Founder of GNU)
Here ‘FREE’ means not only the free of cost, actually it gives 4 freedoms
# The Freedom to Use
# The Freedom to Modify
# The Freedom to Copy
# The Freedom to Redistribute Changes
Linus Torvalds
(Inventor of Linux Kernel)
Why we need Linux?
# Freedom
# Virus free
# Stability & Security
# Multi-user
# Installing Softwares becomes In SINGLE-CLICK
# No PROPRIETARY issues
# Don’t wait years to fix the bugs
# It can run for years without restarting
# Jump in to Next generation of computers
# Do something for world
# An excellent window system called X
# Supports multiple processors as standard
# True multi-tasking
# You can try Linux without touching the OS which already you have
# Get great music players
# Play hundreds of games for free
# Last but not least Enjoy free and unlimited support
How can we get Linux ?
# By downloadind from corresponding site
# By getting the CDs from your city
# By asking CDs through mail
What are all have Linux?
Here I mentioning few
(1) Server Side
# DNS Server – BindDNS
# Mail Server – Postfix
# Web Server – Apache
# DB Server – Mysql
# File Server – NFS & Samba
# Print Server – CUPS
# Firewall – IPTABLES
# Proxy Server – Squid
and many more…..
(2) Development Side
# GUI related
* X Window System
* GNOME
* KDE
* Xfce desktop environments
# OpenOffice.org for office suite
# Mozilla for Firefox for web browsers
# Thunderbird email client.
# Typesetting and document preparation systems
* TeX
* LaTeX
# Graphics tools
* GIMP raster image editor
* Inkscape vector graphic editor
* Paint.NET raster drawing program
* Blender 3D animation program
# Text editors like vi or emacs.
Some Linux Distributions
# Debain based distros like ubuntu
# Redhat based distros like fedora,centos
# Mandriva based distros like mandrake
LUG (Linux User Group)
A Linux User Group or Linux Users’ Group (LUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users.
For our city it is ilugc , which is doing some great works here.
