Tue Oct 17 2006 at 1:14:45
I have walked people through installing Linux so many times, I have decided to write a definitive guide. This is that guide.
WHAT IS LINUX?
Linux is an operating system that started off as a hobby/project of Linus Torvalds. Torvalds actively encouraged others to contribute to his operating system. Over time very rapidly hundreds of thousands of people contributed to Linux and the now very large selection of free software that runs on Linux. It is used worldwide by millions of people as desktops, workstations, servers, and embedded devices (PDAs, cellphones, TiVo, etc).Linux is free. Linux is also free as in no DRM. DRM simply doesn t exist on Linux. period. Even when you do something as simple as play a DVD in Linux, it s breaking the encryption on that DVD to play it back to you. Lastly, Linux is free as in freedom to do whatever you want. The source code to Linux and virtually all of the applications that run on Linux is freely available fo ....