Linux.definition

Invented by Linus Thorvalds in 1991. A UNIX alike operating system free as in beer.

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Kernel 2.6 has even more features of a modern multitasking OS than Windows.
 * SCSI / IDE RAID
 * O(1) Scheduler
 * Hyperthreading support
 * AMD64 support (including no execution protection)
 * comes with source
 * ultra portable

Most prominent applications for Linux include: KDE, apache, PHP, AV The help file equivalent in the Linux world is called MAN Pages. If you're ever lost, puzzled how a command works, just type man command.

Easiest way to a compiled kernel:
 * Download source bzip2
 * tar -xjvpf linux1.23.tar.bzip2
 * cd linux1.23
 * make menuconfig
 * make dep clean install