Linux for Newbies
There's this Linux Guide for Windows Users that attempts, well, to introduce Windows users to Linux world. It's a good attempt, but very unfinished. For slovene readers I recommend the chapter about Linux I wrote for the book Nevladni kako. Otherwise, here are a few short additions to that guide.- The politically correct term for this operating system is GNU/Linux.
- ISO stands for International Standards Organization. The ISO image for CDs is a (usually) big file that conforms to the ISO 9660 standard that defines a filesystem for CD media.
- The kernel is actually what the name Linux stands for. In the strictest sense, when you talk about Linux, you talk about the kernel. If you have the operating system in mind, then you talk about GNU/Linux. You see, the folks at GNU started writing a free operating system way back in 1980s. In 1991 Linus came along and wrote the kernel, the only piece that was missing in the GNU system. Today there are also GNU Hurd and GNU Mach that implement things a kernel does.
- Distributions, or distros for short. You can get a list and descriptions of distros at DistroWatch.com. You can download ISO images of a few popular distros from LinuxISO.
- There's a lot of free literature about Linux at The Linux Documentation Project.
posted by AlesS @ 1/09/2006 03:08:00 PM
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