why and most of all, WHAT is Linux?

Why Linux? Who are we fooling, LINUX IS FREE! I mean it cost nothing. We are poor and we need to compute. So no more serial codes, no more I am a pirate and I am scared of the internet. We are now free to roam around the cabin like a regular passenger in the computer world. If we study hard enough we can roam around the engineering room and design the airplane. For now we install and work and leave worrying behind. Also Linux is extremely virus and malware resistant. When I say we are not scared of the internet, I mean WE ARE NOT SCARED OF THE INTERNET.

What do we mean when we say freedom? Linux is Open Source code and it is all about the code and nothing about the code. We can do as much and as little as we want to with it. It is about choice and freedom in software. We choose which software we like and freedom is to do with it what we like as long as we respect it. In this blog we typically use it, not make it. So here we try and describe the very useful tool that runs our computer, Linux! As well as the programs that run on it.

What is Linux? Plain and simple it is the kernel of the operating system. It is the liaison between the words and or graphics we see on the screen and the hardware beneath. i use Linux to describe the kitchen sink. Linux is like Windows and the Mac OS in that it runs a personal computer, it also runs servers, telephones, TVs and much more. But here we stick with personal computers and perhaps the server and phone.

It is not a specific program it is the operating system, we load it on our PC replacing the original software and we interact with it as we did the computer we bought pre-built, except there are subtle differences.

Yes we can run a dual boot with both Linux and Windows or in virtual environments where one runs inside of the other, but that is getting advanced and I want to stay away from advanced in this post. We load Linux to run our personal computer and all the programs that we load from then on are for linux.