{"id":36233,"date":"2022-06-28T11:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T03:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/?p=36233"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T04:45:10","slug":"linux-os-the-open-source-operating-system-thats-changing-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/tips-sharing\/linux-os-the-open-source-operating-system-thats-changing-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Linux OS? The open-source operating system that&#8217;s changing the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"36233\" class=\"elementor elementor-36233\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4981b6a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4981b6a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58c087c\" data-id=\"58c087c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44c3f51 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"44c3f51\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-.Linux-OS-The-open-source-operating-system-thats-changing-the-world.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-36238\" alt=\"Linux operating system\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-.Linux-OS-The-open-source-operating-system-thats-changing-the-world.png 512w, https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-.Linux-OS-The-open-source-operating-system-thats-changing-the-world-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-.Linux-OS-The-open-source-operating-system-thats-changing-the-world-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31df413 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"31df413\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.\\Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning it is ideal for commercial network devices as well as enterprises that want to use it and its peripherals to customize their own network and data center infrastructure.<\/p><p>That in turn makes Linux skills highly sought after by IT hiring managers. For example, many of the new technologies associated with DevOps, such as containers, infrastructure, and SDN controllers, are built on Linux.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-94bd264 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"94bd264\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0a2b743\" data-id=\"0a2b743\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15a6ff3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"15a6ff3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>What is Linux?<\/strong><\/h2><div>Linux is an operating system similar to though, as we&#8217;ll see, not directly descended from Unix. Like most Unix-like OSes, Linux is made up of several components.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9f18791 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9f18791\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4e788cf\" data-id=\"4e788cf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92ec6ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92ec6ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong>The Kernel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3><p>This is the core of the system and sends instructions to the CPU, peripherals and memory.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a67f43a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a67f43a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-358b03d\" data-id=\"358b03d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9fd1d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f9fd1d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>The Bootloader<\/strong><\/h2><p>The processes that manage the booting up of the system. On a computer the user would recognize this by the splash screen that was up. On a network device there\u2019s a status indicating boot process.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cfccbdc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cfccbdc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a1c0b8\" data-id=\"6a1c0b8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af59b94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"af59b94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>Daemons<\/strong><\/h2><p>Background services that start at boot time or after the system is fully up. For example, the network daemon activates all network interfaces at boot time. Other daemons are things like time and DNS.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24efbea elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24efbea\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-89a1ae9\" data-id=\"89a1ae9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0a2813 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0a2813\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>Linux commands<\/strong><\/h2><div>The command-line interface (CLI) of the shell offers a number of powerful capabilities \u2014 including those crucial for networking and system administration \u2014 for expert users who are familiar with the text-based interface.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0b3f524 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0b3f524\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ab0e324\" data-id=\"ab0e324\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d2969bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d2969bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>Linux distributions<\/strong><\/h2><p>Linux is open source, there is no one vendor selling it; theoretically, you could download the kernel, a desktop environment and various other utilities and applications, and install them all yourself. In practice, these OS components are packaged together into what&#8217;s called a distribution \u2014 basically, a Linux OS tweaked in a particular way that&#8217;s ready to use out of the box.<\/p><p>Again, in theory anyone could put a Linux distribution together, but most are offered by companies and nonprofit organizations. Commercial distributors may charge for their distribution, or offer optional paid support services. Some of the better known Linux distributions are:<\/p><ul><li>Ubuntu<\/li><li>SuSE<\/li><li>Debian<\/li><li>Red Hat<\/li><li>Fedora<\/li><li>Oracle Linux<\/li><li>CentOS<\/li><li>Arch Linux<\/li><li>Mandriva<\/li><\/ul><p>The list is always changing;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/distrowatch.com\/dwres.php?resource=major\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DistroWatch keeps track of the major players<\/a>\u00a0and assesses the pros and cons of each.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cca9f24 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cca9f24\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f8765ee\" data-id=\"f8765ee\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e18ac6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e18ac6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>Why is Linux so successful in the enterprise?<\/strong><\/h2><div><p>In his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3109204\/linux\/linux-at-25-how-linux-changed-the-world.html\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"noopener\">look back on Linux for its 25th anniversary<\/a>,\u00a0<em>InfoWorld&#8217;<\/em>s Paul Venezia reflected on why this upstart operating system designed by hippies and idealists rather than businesspeople ended up so successful in the corporate world. His take is that Linux&#8217;s appeal was twofold.<\/p><p>First, Linux is adaptable, with different distributions porting it to just about any computing platform you could name.<\/p><p>And second, Linux is cheap. It wasn&#8217;t the free kind of Linux that businesses were interested in \u2014 they frankly didn&#8217;t trust free \u2014 but low-cost commercial Linux with support available was hard to pass up. And perhaps even more importantly, Linux could run on commodity hardware \u2014 the cheap x86 PC boxes most companies already had in abundance \u2014 in an age when other Unix vendors like Sun were used their OS to bundle in their high-end hardware.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c6a61d0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c6a61d0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f6325ca\" data-id=\"f6325ca\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1273c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d1273c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>These factors will keep Linux in the enterprise for years to come. So whether you&#8217;re a sysadmin or a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/vps-hosting-malaysia\">network admin<\/a>, you&#8217;re going to want to familiarize yourself with it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[89],"tags":[102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36233"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36314,"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36233\/revisions\/36314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}