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In this lecture, we are going to see introduction to Linux operating system.
From smartphones to cars, from home appliances to supercomputers, from home desktops to enterprise
servers, the Linux operating system is everywhere.
Linux has been around since the mid 1990s and has since reached a user base that spans the globe.
Linux is actually everywhere, its phones, your thermostats in your cars, refrigerators and televisions.
It also runs most of the Internet, all of the world's top 500 supercomputers and the world's all the
stock exchanges use the Linux.
But besides being the platform of choice to run the desktops.
Linux is one of the most reliable, secure and very free operating system that is available in today's
world.
So what is Linux?
Linux is an operating system or kernel distributor and an open source license.
Its functionality is quite like Unix.
The kernel is a program at the heart of the Linux operating system that takes care of the fundamental
stuff, like letting hardware communicate with the software Linux operating system or the kernel with
germinated as an idea in the mind of young and bright, a person named Linus Torvalds when he was a
computer science student, just like Windows, iOS and Mac OS, Linux is an operating system, in fact
one of the most powerful platforms on the planet.
To put it simply, the operating system manages the communication between the software and your of it.
The Linux operating system comprises several different pieces that bootloader kernel in its systems
Damons graphical servers, NextG environments and applications.
Linux has evolved into one of the most reliable ecosystems on the planet that combines reliability with
the zero cost of entry.
And you have the perfect solution for every desktop platform.
That's right.
Zero cost of entry, as in free Linux, the free open source operating system.
You can install Linux on as many computers you want without paying not a single penny.
Linux now enjoys popularity at its prime, and it's famous among the programmers as well as a regular
computer users around the world.
Its main benefits are it offers a free operating system.
You just do not have to shell hundreds of dollars to get OS like Windows being open source.
Anyone with prior programming knowledge can modified.
The Linux operating system now offers millions of programmers applications to choose from which are
most free.
Once you have installed Linux, you no longer need an antivirus.
Linux is a highly secure system.
More so there is a global development community constantly looking at ways to enhance its security.
With each upgrade, the operating system becomes more secure and robust.
Linux is the also of the choice for server environments, the stability and reliability.
Mega companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google use Linux for the servers.
A Linux server could run non-stop reboot for years to end, but users who are new to Linux usually shun
it falsely, considering it as a difficult and technical OS to operate but to state the truth.
In the last few years, Linux operating system have become a lot more user friendly than their counterparts,
like Windows.
So trying them is the best way to know whether Linux suits you or not.
There are thousands of Linux based operating systems, most of them of a state of the art, security
and applications, and all of them are free.
In the next lecture, we'll see the overview of Kali Linux operating system.