What is Linux

I will go over with you what is linux. So what is linux, linux operating system is made up of a three part. The three parts are, the kernel, the shell, and tools and app. Linux is one of many open source operating system. When a peace of software and/or operating system is open source it means that the code ( if you will) can be see for whoever wish to see it. It also means that the software and/or operating system can be change to hopefully make it better for the user. Open source means free.The linux operating system is a unix-like operating system and by that I mean is very similar to unix.I am going to tell you about the kernel. The UNIX kernel is very similar. The kernel is the operating system’s code.the kernel is the baseline of all of the operating system and if you were to change the kernel then you might severely screw up your computer.The linux kernel is a very special kernel because every day geeks can change it to hopefully make a better operating system. The linux OS is surprisingly very similar to the unix kernel. I admit that I have not memorized or closely look at the center part of the linux operating system, when I say center I am talking about the three layers of the linux operating system which are three components, the kernel, the shell, and tools and apps.The shell is one of my favorite part of Linux because this is the part that humans interact with and you can mess around with without hurting your computer but at the same time being able to do cool tricks, needed action, searching for files, writing a program, and much more. All the bash commands that you will learn will be use in side the shell and when you open terminal in linux you will be in the shell. An easy way to deifie the shell is to say it is where the computer shows information and the humans inputs data to save or to use to retrieve info for the computer. |The shell is where you will mostly spend your time when you are in terminal you are using the shell.}

In this section I will explain the GUI. First I will share with the easiest tools and apps. If you are familiar with unix then you will know how helpful and powerful it can be, it can runs apps from simple word pressers to hole operating systems. But in the linux world it dose not run or nor meant to run hole operating systems but it will run a GUI, graphic user interface. GUI is the main difference between UNIX and Linux. So when you boot up your distribution of linux and after you set it up you will be able to see a desktop instead of just the shell as in unix.This is a good part if you don't know what open source means or is. Like I said open source means that you can see and change the code for the software or operating system. I did go into but I think is imported to know is how are the versos versions categorized. When software or operating system is changed then the final product is called a distribution. When a distribution is updated by its creator it will be called a new version like most other software but when it is updated by a different person that was not command by the creator then the final product is then called another distro, it is short for distribution,To conclude this blog I would like to say that Linux operating system is so amazing because that each layer is so just amazing like, the kernel, the shell, tool and application. Because the kernel is so powerful and is much more then a bunch of useless code. Because the shell is a great way to do very cool trcks with it. but tools and apps are asome for their ability to run a GUI.

I used a few articles to write this these articles are "What is Linux | Squidoo," "What is Linux | Tripod," and "What is Linux | Weebly."