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Someone explain Linux to me?
Posted on 8/8/14 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 8/8/14 at 7:47 pm
What is it for in practice?+
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Posted on 8/8/14 at 8:07 pm to FT
it's an operating system. Why you would come here rather than google makes me question your desire to actually know. 
Posted on 8/8/14 at 9:43 pm to FT
Linux is very flexible and in the last several years has become the base of an operating system that millions of people use every day, but may not realize it.
Android runs on a linux kernel.
Most major websites run on linux.
OSX is pretty much a Mickey Mouse interface on top of a custom linux.
More people should use it on their desktops that all they use for is web, email, etc, there would be a lot less infected computers.
As someone already said, it's usability in say a business environment is limited because it won't run a lot of business software. I didn't really care for the way it was worded, though. It's not like someone wrote those business applications, then Windows wrote their OS and it could run it, but linux wrote it's OS and it couldn't run it.
The reason linux doesn't run those applications is because those applications were programmed to run in a Windows environment.
If more commercial applications were written for linux, I think it would take the world by storm.
Android runs on a linux kernel.
Most major websites run on linux.
OSX is pretty much a Mickey Mouse interface on top of a custom linux.
More people should use it on their desktops that all they use for is web, email, etc, there would be a lot less infected computers.
As someone already said, it's usability in say a business environment is limited because it won't run a lot of business software. I didn't really care for the way it was worded, though. It's not like someone wrote those business applications, then Windows wrote their OS and it could run it, but linux wrote it's OS and it couldn't run it.
The reason linux doesn't run those applications is because those applications were programmed to run in a Windows environment.
If more commercial applications were written for linux, I think it would take the world by storm.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 10:49 pm to FT
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What is it for in practice?+
Penetration testers usually make heavy use of some flavor of Linux in their work. Many "appliance" devices use some flavor of Linux or Unix as the underlying OS, including NAS's, network switches, routers, wiFi AP's, etc.
Funny story actually - one day I swung into a Burger King, and one of the LCD's that show the menus was displaying a panicked Linux kernel. It's in more places than you might think.
Posted on 8/9/14 at 12:23 am to FT
Linux is used extensively as server software.
And by a limited number of geeks for personal computers.
And by a limited number of geeks for personal computers.
Posted on 8/9/14 at 10:19 am to FT
If you are a software developer then it's a great OS to have. Certain distros like Ubuntu and Fedora don't have the same issues as a Windows when it comes to performance and stability.
Posted on 8/10/14 at 8:06 am to FT
Linux is a UNIX based open source operating system. It was build with the Internet in mind and most Apache web servers run Linux. It is a far superior OS to windows. It is one of the best if not the best OS in the world.
This post was edited on 8/10/14 at 8:07 am
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:42 pm to FT
All of our high end video processors ($12k - $115k) all Ron on custom Linux operating systems.
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