[plug] Linux Versions

[Sacha Schlegel]

Hi Tim

> What different Linux Versions are thier and what is the best??

Linux is basically only a kernel, the very basic of an operating system like process scheduling, memory management, hardware management (drivers), networking and more.

 Then you have a lot of tools around and often they come from the gnu (http://www.gnu.org) project. Tools like c compiler and c++ compiler (gcc), parsers, shells (eg bash), editors (eg ed, sed, vi, emacs) and many tools more.

So the system should be called GNU/Linux according to Richard M Stallman.

Gnome, KDE and all its applications come on top. There are of course commercial applications which run on the GNU/Linux system.

Linux Distributions (debian, Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera, Mandrake etc). take the kernels, tools and compile them for you. They make sure that the system runs smoothly. And often a distro (like Smoothwall) is designed for a special purpose (firewall, server, workstation, game station etc).

Like the ice cream example from a prior email.

Try some distros out, check out what your friends are using, read magazines or check with plug what pluggers use, as you did with your email.

Have fun.

Sacha, debian distro user


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