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Getting Started: What is Linux and Linux Distributions (distro)
What is an Operating System?
When you turn your device on, it boots up the operating system, which manages the communication/interface between your applications and the hardware it is running on.
What is Linux?
Linux is an Operating Systems – similar to Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android.
Linux is open-source – freely available – so you can download, modify and redistribute.
Due to this there are 10s of varieties of Linux Distributions (distros):
Debian
Ubuntu (based on Debian)
Fedora
Amazon Linux 2
Commercial: Red Hat (which we are using today)
Rocky Linux
There is a lot of commonality across these distros.
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Getting Started: Types of Environments
Types of Environment:
Desktop: Windows type Graphical User Interface (GUI) - mouse point and click.
Terminal: Program that opens a graphical window and runs a:
Shell which is a command interpreter that processes the typed commands.
Interface to the OS.
Provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) – text-based input/output.
Different Shells share common commands, but syntax and behavior can be different.
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