Tell about Linux Operating System ?

The GPL makes sure that anyone who distributes the Linux kernel must make the source code (and any modifications) available to the recipient under the same terms. However, other software included with Linux distribution may be licensed under BSD, MIT, or any other open source License.

Linux is written in the C using GNU/GCC compiler set. A small number of sections of code written in the assembly language of the target architecture. Most Linux drivers are written in C itself. However, you can use many other languages such as Perl, Python, and various shell scripting languages to manage Linux systems.

Linux kernel runs on a wild variety of hardware, including mobile phone, handheld computer, mainframe server, supercomputers, desktop and many small and embedded devices. Linux is now considered as one of the most widely ported operating system kernels.

Linux is growing very fast and adopted by many users around the world. The Linux market is growing rapidly, and the revenue of servers, desktops, and packaged software running Linux is expected to exceed $35.7 billion by 2008. A Linux operating system used by students, business, homes, organizations, companies, and governments.

the Linux desktop market share range from less than one percent to almost two percent. In comparison, Microsoft operating systems hold more than 88% market share. However, Linux has the largest share in servers, notebooks and embedded devices.

A number of command line interface environments are available, of which BASH is the most widely used. There are a lot of small and specialized utilities (such as awk, sed, cut, paste and so on) meant to work together and to integrate with other programs. This is called the toolbox principle.

Linux kernel 2.6 once used a scheduling algorithm favoring interactive processes. However, Linux offers other process scheduling, logs such as Completely Fair Scheduler.

Linux is mostly supported by the community using online forums or mailing lists. Red Hat, Canonical, Novell and other major distributors have paid phone support available as well. There are also paid local Linux techs available.

A Wealth of information is available free online in the forms of blogs, wikis, tutorials, or in books, as well as on vendors own support page. Detailed documentation for specific commands, programs, functions, libraries, files, and file formats are available through the man pages, which are accessed through the command line, or through graphical viewers.

Training available via many computing university courses in programming and computer science. Also, vendor specific certifications are provided by Linux Professional Institute and some distributions, such as Red Hat and Ubuntu.

First and foremost fact about Linux is it's being FOSS or open source Operating system. Security and Privacy wise there are little to almost no gaps and security flaws unlike that in Windows and MacOS (why? Because the community statically and dynamically audits the source code on a frequent basis, no corporate hegemony in short).

While, Windows and MacOS have a new exploit coming up each day, and malwares implementing it, like a friend of mine on Twitter (SandboxEscaper) disclosed one last week… and the very next day a group called “Powerpool" made a malware making use of that LPE bug! Whoa! That's how secure you are with Windows and MacOS even after paying a shitload of dollars. So

It being free and open source raises the bar of entry to one and all into using computers without running into pirated versions which are most common, yeah DRM isn't an issue at all. It's open and free to all. You don't need to pay a penny for using Linux

Linux, is easier and better to manage your everyday work and achieving automation in various tasks. Automation becomes a breeze with its native Unix shell scripting.

Smaller size of its image. Most closed source distros like Windows and Mac OS consume Gigabytes of data and memory while Linux base images like Alpine can be as small as 25 mb, now ask which one stands apart. This makes it more memory efficient, this is why it's chosen for base images for Docker containers.

Contrary to popular opinion, Linux isn't bad and the most popular in terms of developing applications.

It's huge community and it's open nature. Stuck at some point ask the community, ask Stack overflow for instance, it's well documented and with its man pages I hardly need to Google for packages I use in Linux.

Wait for a few minutes and done…! Python installed, that took just a few seconds or mins at most. However, most distros come with python pre-installed the package managers like yum and apt make this process much smoother and amazing, safer,

Best fact about Linux is it's demand. Demand for Linux system administrators is a lot in the software development and deployment market making it a Lucrative thing to learn and get skilled at! Linux removes all the clutter and makes deploying your app to production a breeze, come in docker and vagrant!

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