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i am looking for the operating system first just to compare bitween it and the other operating systems<br />

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i am looking for the operating system first just to compare bitween it and the other operating systems


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i am looking for the operating system first just to compare bitween it and the other operating systems,do i need any software to install it ant to make it run?does it look like windows or dos?<br />

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i am looking for the operating system first just to compare bitween it and the other operating systems,do i need any software to install it ant to make it run?does it look like windows or dos?


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The software necessary to install Linux is included (in all cases I've heard tell of) with a distribution... specifically, partition and formatting utilities.<br />
Linux at it's base, without the considerable mechanism of X Windows running by the OS services &quot;below&quot; it, appears superficially like MS-DOS. While running X Windows, it bears similarities to Windows and other GUIs (depending upon how you configure X).<br />

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The software necessary to install Linux is included (in all cases I've heard tell of) with a distribution... specifically, partition and formatting utilities.
Linux at it's base, without the considerable mechanism of X Windows running by the OS services "below" it, appears superficially like MS-DOS. While running X Windows, it bears similarities to Windows and other GUIs (depending upon how you configure X).


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Do I receive the points? : )<br />

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what is the latest version of linux,what is the size of it and where can i get free copy of it?
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what is the latest version of linux,what is the size of it and where can i get free copy of it?

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Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

Linux

A Linux distribution is an operating system made as a software collection based on the Linux kernel and, often, on a package management system and are available for a variety of systems. A typical Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system (the most common being the X Window System), a window manager, and a desktop environment. Most Linux systems are open-source software made available both as compiled binaries and in source code form, allowing modifications to the original software. Over three hundred distributions are in active development, including commercially backed distributions (such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu) and community-driven distributions (such as Debian, Slackware, Gentoo and Arch Linux).