Linux or GNU'Linux

GNU'Linux or Linux operating system is free which is very popular for computers.
The term Linux or GNU / Linux (GNU) digunakin also as a reference to keseluzuhan Linux distro (Linux distribution), which is included in other programs supporting the operating system. Sample programs are web servers, programming languages, database, display desktop (Desktop Environment) (such as GNOME and KDE), and office applications (office suite), such as OpenOffice.org, KOffice, AbiWord, Gnumeric.


Linux distributions that have experienced rapid growth in terms of popularity, so the more popular versions of UNIX systems that use license and paid (proprietary) and the free version of UNIX that was originally rival Microsoft Windows dominance in the few.
Linux supports a lot of computer hardware, and has been in various digunakin equipment from personal computers, and superkomputer system benam (embedded systee), such as mobile phone (Ponsel) and personal video recorder.
Initially, Linux is created, developed, and used by peminatnya only. Linux now has support from major corporations such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard. These observers think the success of information technology, this is because Linux does not depend on the vendor (vendor independence), a low operational cost, and compatibility of a high than proprietary versions of UNIX, and security factors and kestabilannya compared with Microsoft Windows. The characteristics of this evidence is also a top model of the development benefits of open source software (opensource software).