What Linux is?

Hello friends this is my first post and in this post you found various interesting points about LINUX. Hope you enjoy the reading.

It is definite that every computer programmer or a software engineer is definitely aware of Linux.Linux is Unix like operating system and it is developed by Linus Torvalds. The main reason behind the development of Linux is to provide personal computer users a free or very low-cost operating system comparable to traditional and usually more expensive Unix systems. Within the next few years of its developments its made image like of a very efficient and fast performing operating system.

Today LINUX is freely available in the market while you had to pay for other operating systems. The biggest advantage of using LINUX is that you can adjust your LINUX operating system as per your requirement because when you get Linux you will also get source code of Linux, so you can modify OS according to your requirement.Unlike Windows and other proprietary systems, Linux is publicly open and extendibles by contributors. Linux provides you poratble operating system interface that means any program that is written on LINUX can be easily ported to the other operating system.

In addition to all these things it also offers many Free Software applications, programming languages, and development tools etc.When we compare LINUX and UNIX then they almost have all the same features like Unix, Linux is also written in C,both of them are Multi-user/Multitasking/32 or 64 bit Network OS, both of them had rich Development/Programming environment.The only difference between Unix and Linux is that Linux is open source while Unix is not open source.