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

Debian Ubuntu (based on Debian)	Image Added
Fedora Amazon Linux 2 Commercial: Red Hat (which we are using today) Rocky Linux

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A lot of commonality across

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distros.

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Types of Environments

Types of Environment:

Desktop: Windows type Graphical User Interface (GUI) -

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Graphics based interactions between the user and the operating system.

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Terminal: Program that opens a

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window

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to runs a:

Shell which is a command interpreter that processes the typed commands.
- Interface to the OS.
- Provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) – written/text-based input

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- and output.
- Different Shells share common commands, but syntax and behavior can be different.

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Intro to Linux

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