Monday, April 16, 2007

What is Linux?

Linux, also known as GNU/Linux, is a free operating system, that comes with the source code that can be copied, modified and redistributed.

GNU is a unix like operating system, but not unix. GNU stands for GNU not unix, it's an recursive acronym.

2 comments:

Sundar said...

Linux is just a kernel. It becomes Operating System if you bundle many application along with it :-)

Raaaj said...

you made it simple :)