About Linux
LINUX is a free open source program under GNU license, 32-64 bit operating system, which is a derivative of Unix and can run on a variety of hardware platforms ranging from Intel (x86), to RISC processors. Linux is a free open source program one that makes Linux popular is because it's free. With the GNU (Gnu Not Unix) you can get the program, complete with source code (source code). Not only that, you are granted the right to copy as much as you want, or even change the source code and was all legal under license. Although free, GNU license allows those who want to attract fee for copying and sending program. Full of the GNU license.
Note:
Literature can complete GNU read on their website that
http://www.gnu.org.
Thus, it can be said that you can get Linux without having to pay at all. If you have to pay every time you install the software on another computer, then with Linux you can install it anywhere without having to pay a license. The most important freedom of Linux, especially for programmers and network administrators, is the freedom to obtain the source code (source code) and the freedom to change it. This implies a few important things. Safety first, the second dynamics.
If commercial software does not allow you to know source code then you'll never know if the program you buy from them it is safe or not (often called security by obscurity). Your life in the hands of the vendors. And if there is a notice about the bugs of the commercial software, it is often too late. With Linux, you can examine the source code directly, along with other Linux users. The development of Linux users as an open community, making bugs will quickly known, and as soon as it did the programmer will fix the program. You yourself also determines the appropriate code in accordance with the basic hardware and other software to be implemented. Like a car, you can modify at will, even though the machine, in order to obtain the desired shape.
Disclosure of the source code also allows the operating system is growing rapidly. If a program with a closed system and is only developed by a particular vendor, at most about one thousand to five thousand people. As for Linux, with open source code, developed by volunteers around the world. Known bugs faster and fix program (patch) more quickly available. Approach to the development of this operating system called Bazaar. Conversely Chatedraal very closed system and only focus on one or two developers only.
In addition, Linux provides a free programming language, complete with compiler, and program assistants. Some of them are:
LINUX is a free open source program under GNU license, 32-64 bit operating system, which is a derivative of Unix and can run on a variety of hardware platforms ranging from Intel (x86), to RISC processors. Linux is a free open source program one that makes Linux popular is because it's free. With the GNU (Gnu Not Unix) you can get the program, complete with source code (source code). Not only that, you are granted the right to copy as much as you want, or even change the source code and was all legal under license. Although free, GNU license allows those who want to attract fee for copying and sending program. Full of the GNU license. Note:
Literature can complete GNU read on their website that
http://www.gnu.org.
Thus, it can be said that you can get Linux without having to pay at all. If you have to pay every time you install the software on another computer, then with Linux you can install it anywhere without having to pay a license. The most important freedom of Linux, especially for programmers and network administrators, is the freedom to obtain the source code (source code) and the freedom to change it. This implies a few important things. Safety first, the second dynamics.
If commercial software does not allow you to know source code then you'll never know if the program you buy from them it is safe or not (often called security by obscurity). Your life in the hands of the vendors. And if there is a notice about the bugs of the commercial software, it is often too late. With Linux, you can examine the source code directly, along with other Linux users. The development of Linux users as an open community, making bugs will quickly known, and as soon as it did the programmer will fix the program. You yourself also determines the appropriate code in accordance with the basic hardware and other software to be implemented. Like a car, you can modify at will, even though the machine, in order to obtain the desired shape.
Disclosure of the source code also allows the operating system is growing rapidly. If a program with a closed system and is only developed by a particular vendor, at most about one thousand to five thousand people. As for Linux, with open source code, developed by volunteers around the world. Known bugs faster and fix program (patch) more quickly available. Approach to the development of this operating system called Bazaar. Conversely Chatedraal very closed system and only focus on one or two developers only.
In addition, Linux provides a free programming language, complete with compiler, and program assistants. Some of them are:
- ADA
- BASIC
- C
- C++
- Expect
- FORTRAN
- GTK, to create GUI applications on Linux
- PASCAL
- Phyton
- Skrip Shell
- TCL
- Perl (The Practical Extraction and Report Language), often used to make CGI scripts on the web.
