a brief overview of linux or how i learned to stop worrying and love the penguin

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A brief overview of Linuxor: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love

the Penguin


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A little about me

A Linux user from ~2003

Currently using Ubuntu.

Previously used Redhat, Gentoo, Arch, Debian

this presentation will be posted on

http://denner.co

Contact info: [email protected] twitter @adenner
mailto:[email protected]://denner.co/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://denner.co/http://denner.co/


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About this talk

A little about the history of linux, and why it is so

fractured

What is a distribution, why are there so many ofthem, and why should I care

A brief survey of some popular distros


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What this talk is not

A guide how to install linux(this will come in another talk)

A complete overview of everyversion of Linux

An attempt to start a holy war


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Terms and Ideas

Distribution: a member of the family of Unix-likeoperating systems built on top of the Linux kernel

Desktop Manager: The GUI, i.e. KDE, GNOME,Unity

Open Source Software

Free as in speech

Free as in Beer


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Averybrief historyMore to come in another speech

1970-ATT Unix (Bell Labs)

1977 BSD (UC Berkley)

1983 RMS and GNU

1987 Minux (os source code was available but distribution

limited)

1991 Linus Torvalds started personal project that wouldbecome Linux


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https://reader008.{domain}/reader008/html5/0418/5a


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Debian

Prides itself on being completely Free

Several versions

Stable (every 2 years last released Oct 12, 2013 Wheezy)

Backports

Testing

Unstable (Jessie)

experimental

Uses dpkg-apt package management

Default UI is GNOME


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Ubuntu

Based off of Debian, Development is led byCanonical

Goal to be user friendly, released every 6 monthsand every 4th release a LTS (last 4-25-2013 and4-26-2012)

Default UI is Unity, however several varients, Kbuntu(KDE), Lubuntu (LXDE), Ubuntu GNOME etc. Mint

Also has a server variant as well as Live CD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.


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Redhat

Enterprise targeted ($$$)

Package Management: RPM

Default UI: GNOME


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Fedora

Feeder to Redhat using the latest technologies

Uses yum/RPM package management

Short cycles: new versions every 6 months,maintenance for 13 months

User Interface GNOME 3


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CentOS

Community Enterprise Operating System

One of many Redhat Clones


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GentooCompiled from source to specifications

Portage Package Management System

Currently it isofficially supported and consideredstable on x86, x86-64,IA-64, PA-RISC, PowerPC, PowerPC 970, SPARC 64-bit and DECAlpha

and is in development on MIPS,PS3 Cell Processor, System Z/s390, ARM,and SuperH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaniumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC_familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC_familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC_familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_970http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alphahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_zSerieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_zSerieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alphahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alphahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_970http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_970http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC_familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC_familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaniumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaniumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86


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HTTP://FUNROLL-LOOPS.INFO
http://funroll-loops.info/http://funroll-loops.info/


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Arch

Default interface is BASH (command prompt)

You choose your own window manager

Targeted at power users

Package Management Pacman

Packages compiled for i686 processors


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Knoppix

Live CD/USB

Created and maintained by Klaus Knopper

Default UI LXDE

Debian Based (ish)


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Links

Debian: http://www.debian.org

Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com

Redhat: http://www.redhat.com

Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org

CentOS:http://www.centos.org

Gentoo:http://www.gentoo.org

Arch: https://www.archlinux.org

Knoppix: http://knoppix.net

Distro Watch:http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=majorhttp://knoppix.net/https://www.archlinux.org/http://www.gentoo.org/http://www.centos.org/http://fedoraproject.org/http://www.redhat.com/http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=majorhttp://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=majorhttp://knoppix.net/http://knoppix.net/https://www.archlinux.org/https://www.archlinux.org/http://www.gentoo.org/http://www.gentoo.org/http://www.centos.org/http://www.centos.org/http://fedoraproject.org/http://fedoraproject.org/http://www.redhat.com/http://www.redhat.com/http://www.ubuntu.com/http://www.ubuntu.com/http://www.debian.org/http://www.debian.org/

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