Question by hexe: mostly web hosting companies use linux. What is linux and does it work with windows?
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Answer by Zarg
linux is another operating systom, and no it doesn’t work with windows, unless you have it on another hard drive. Linux is used by more ‘savy’ people because you can make it do things that windows whould bug out if you tryed…
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Linux is an operating system, just like Windows is an operating system. They aren’t related in any way.
Fedora Linux is probably the most common one around since it is opensource and can be installed and used for free.
If you are interested in knowing more about Fedora Linux check out the below link.
linux is an atlernative operating system to Windows. its alot more technical and not as user friendly, but its all open-source, and usually free.
alot(i wouldn’t say most) of servers and web hosting companies use linux to run there servers because its very stable and easy to fix/upgrade.
becuase its a totally different operating system, it doesn’t work with windows(of course, since its a different operating system)
if you want to know more, i would suggest skimming the wikipedia entry on linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Linux is an operating system like windows… Similar to windows web server linux servers are very famous and prefered now-a-days.
Security is more in linux while comparing with windows… This made it more popular and also it is a free source software… ( Free to distribute and modify ) anyone can modify linux according to their needs….
Linux is an “alternative” operating system, there is MUCH history behind it, I wont go into the entire history but I will go in to short detail.
A long time ago (in a Galaxy far away) there was a operating system owned by AT&T (if memory serves me right), and once it was givin to colleges for free in hopes it would bring in long term profits. A short while later, the bastards decided to make everyone pay though the nose for it, and imatators came out. Ken Tompson is the person who wrote most of the unix code.
Going forward, there was a team of hackers, who did not like the way that the companies that they were working for were licencing their software, and created the GNU movement, and thanks to a man named Linus Torvalds who created the entire kernel himslef as an undergrad…history was made, and a open source operating system named linux was created.
To answer your question it is an operating system just like windows, only in most versions, the source code is given under the GNU licence (basically free to modfy).
Read the link below if you have time, it is very interesting.
To give you the brief answer, linux “does work with windows”, you can duel boot both operating systems and run then on the same system.