Hey, i want to learn what linux is, could anyone please give me a basic summary of linux, what it can do and any other information?
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OSX is also the same as Linux and OSX use Unix as their base.This may go above and beyond what you want to do. But try learning Unix first, a lot of the commands in Unix are the same as Linux except that Unix uses the Korn shell by default.
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OSX is also the same as Linux and OSX use Unix as their base.
OSX is not the same as linux. Linux is open source anyone can copy/modify the source. OSX is closed source nuff said. Linux does not use Unix as a base. It is a Unix clone. Meaning that it does not copy ANY Unix source code. While the two systems are near identical, linux does not share any code with Unix.
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Thanks! I never knew Linux didn't use Unix at its base. But why are terminal commands so similar between my (awesome) Mac and my Ubuntu PC?
Thanks! just a quick question, what version of linux can bring back a machine with 2GB of RAM?Well as I stated earlier, Unix and linux don't share source code, but linux is a clone of Unix. Which means that it has all of the features Unix has (without copying source code) plus a gui.
Now to answer your question, there are two main type of Unix. The first invented in the mid 60s in att bell laboratories is Unix, due to lawsuit issues they couldn't license it so they had to keep it open source. About half a decade later Berkeley University, copied that source code but modified it so much that it became an os of its own, Bsdunix (which is closed source).
A few decades later, Apple decides to use Bsdunix as a base, so they acquired a license and began developing it, mac os was the result. So following back from this sentence, that is why they share so many similar commands. OSX is a Unix based operating system.
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Thanks! I never knew Linux didn't use Unix at its base. But why are terminal commands so similar between my (awesome) Mac and my Ubuntu PC?
Thanks! just a quick question, what version of linux can bring back a machine with 2GB of RAM?
Because the bash shell (used on most flavors of desktop Linux) and tcsh (used on OSX) are both derivatives of csh and use similar commands. The underlying OS has nothing to do with this, as bash has even been ported to Windows.
Well isn't this funny my old PC has 2GB of RAM and a Pentium 4 proccecor clocked at 3.4 Ghz an that thing is so slow with windows on it. I will have to have a look at mint even though I prefer UbuntuHehe my system runs linux Mint 14 32 bit, it works fine for developing. It has a pentium 4 prescott (experimental dual core) and 2gigs of dual channel ddr1 ram and it flies. Boot that sucker up, install prelink and preload, and install the liquorix kernel (it's a bit difficult to setup, as you have to build your own video driver for it to work properly, but the kernel comes with a script to do that). That's what my setup is, and I only lag when running system intensive apps. I need to upgrade though so I can start building android from source.
Linux.org is the official linux website, you can get advice from the people who actually build the linux distros, and they have really great guides available to set you know the right direction.
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Well isn't this funny my old PC has 2GB of RAM and a Pentium 4 proccecor clocked at 3.4 Ghz an that thing is so slow with windows on it. I will have to have a look at mint even though I prefer Ubuntu