Linux is a free and open-source operating system created by Linus Torvalds when he was a student. It follows the UNIX philosophy and is built from many GNU tools. People use Linux because it is free to obtain and modify, allows for multi-user access and multitasking, is stable due to its modular design, and is fast even when running many processes simultaneously.

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LINUX

2. What is LINUX?
– A free, open source operating system.
– Created by Linus Torvalds when he was
a student at University of Helsinki
– LINUX follows the UNIX philosophy and
it’s build from many GNU tools

3. Why People Use LINUX?
– It’s free
You can get Linux free from someone who has
it, from Website or you can buy a Linux
magazine and get it from this as a CD. Free it
not means like you can get everything not paid,
but free is : you can modify and redistribute
again.
– It’s multiuser
Multiuser not always mean the same thing to
different people, but the real meaning of a
multiuser operating system is one that’s
multiple people log in and run processes on it at
the same time.

4. – It’s multitasking
This allows the system to run more than one job
in a same time. Not like older operating system
such as MS-DOS allowed only one job to run at
a time.
– It’s stable
Linux has excellent stability due to it’s design
and modularity.
– It’s fast
Many users switching to Linux from Windows
are surprised at how fast and responsive this
system is, even with many processes running
and with multiple Windows open.

5. Bibliography
Jason W. Grzywna.2002.Linux : An
Introduction.Machine Intelligence Lab Seminar
Series:2-3.
Matthias Kalle Dalhaimer, Terry Dawson, Lar
Kaufman, Matt Welsh.2002.Running Linux 4th
Edition.O’Reilly.
Angie Nash and Jason Nash.2001.LPIC 1
Certification Bible.Hungry Minds Inc.