The founder of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, had shared his opinions and views on the state of Linux on the desktop and “what killed the Linux desktop”. It’s quite an interesting read and many of his points seem fairly valid. The thing that striked me the most was in respect to his point on various …
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Linux Part 4
Linux Part 4
The inventory of the previous chapter is described in a manifesto dated 1996 Matthias Ettrich grown in response to base the KDE and Miguel de Icaza founded the GNOME project to the next year,
Unix-type operating system Linux | Part 3
Unix-type operating system Linux | Part 3
Linux distributions are normally made up of packages (packages), and each contains a specific application or component, for example, there may be packets containing a library for managing an image format, or a set of fonts, or a web browser as well as any other program.
Unix-type operating system Linux | Part 2
Unix-type operating system Linux | Part 2
Major Linux distributions: Arch Linux – is light, fast, highly scalable and adaptable to their needs. Optimized for i686 now available for X86-64 and PowerPC.
Unix-type operating system Linux | Part 1
Unix-type operating system Linux | Part 1
Linux (or GNU / Linux) is a free Unix-type operating system (or Unix-like), incorporating elements of the Linux kernel with the GNU system and other software developed and distributed under GNU GPL or other free licenses.