Greg Kroah-Hartman is a kernel champion, devfs headsman and inexplicable lover of PCI Hotplug subsystems. The first computer that he ever used was a Radio Shack TRS-80, Model 3, and the first piece of code that he ever wrote were programs in BASIC that ended up being used by his parents for different volunteer tasks they were involved in at the time (Rf.1). He has resided in Portland, Oregon for more than ten years with his beautiful wife and two children, and currently works for Novell in the
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dealt in the field were more focused on marketing the hardware the software was almost always complimentary. This however, began to change when software development costs began to escalate and companies began competing for the software market. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel began to shift things back in 1991. His software was a freely modifiable source code. Over the years the idea gathered much more momentum. It has burgheoned so that now major IT companies are now developing projects
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Guide to Linux+ (2nd Edition) ISBN 0-619-21621-2 End of Chapter Solutions Chapter 1 Solutions Review Questions 1. Every computer consists of physical components and logical components. The logical components of a computer that understand how to work with the physical components are referred to as: a. hardware b. records c. software d. processors Answer: c 2. The operating system software is necessary for a computer to function. True
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Guide to Linux+ (2nd Edition) ISBN 0-619-21621-2 End of Chapter Solutions Chapter 1 Solutions Review Questions 1. Every computer consists of physical components and logical components. The logical components of a computer that understand how to work with the physical components are referred to as: a. hardware b. records c. software d. processors Answer: c 2. The operating system software is necessary for a computer to function. True
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managing software development projects, it would be Linus Torvalds, creator of the world's most popular open-source software program: the Linux operating system. For more than 20 years, Torvalds has been directing thousands of developers to improve the open source OS. He and I sat down to talk about effective techniques in running large-scale distributed programming teams – and the things that don’t work, too. LinusPortland-560.gif Torvalds says there are two things that people very commonly get
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system that is largely POSIX compliant. Linux is being developed under the GPL and is freely redistributable in source code. This means that is an open source that means you can see the source code. The first Linux kernel was written by the Linus Torvalds in 1994 and is the core of the operating system. There are 5 core Linux kernel sub-systems. First sub-system is called the Process Scheduler, which regulates processes to the CPU. The second sub-system is called Memory Manager, which controls memory
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(Linus Torvalds) in Helsinki in 1991 with the assistance of developers from around the world. Linux is free, it shares its work with everyone — including competitors — and its business model is motivated primarily by adrenaline, altruism, and peer respect rather than by money. Yet, Linux's functionality, adaptability and robustness has made it the main alternative for proprietary operating systems, especially where budgets are a main concern.” (OEDB, 2007). As it is stated above Torvalds creation
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Linus Torvalds to create a new free Operating System Kernel. He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an Operating System because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor. The development of Linux was done on Minix using the GNU C Compiler. The GNU C compiler is still the main choice for compiling Linux today. The code however, can be built with other compilers, such as the Intel C Compiler. At first Linus Torvalds had wanted
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Who else has helped build and refine this operating system?The GNU is a completely free (in the freedom sense) operating system built by Richard Stallman and many of its components, except for the kernel, were completed in the early '90s. Linus Torvalds wrote the kernel for Linux, which was also intended to be a free operating system, in the early '90s. The two systems then were combined together to finish Linux, with it's original kernel and added features supplied by GNU. Linux was born off the
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Independent Nora (looking at her watch). It’s still not very late. Sit down here, Torvald. We have a lot to talk over. (She sits down at one side of the table.) Helmer. Nora — what is this? — That hard expression — Independent Nora. Sit down. This’ll take some time; I have a lot to say. Helmer (sits down at the opposite side of the table). You worry me, Nora! — and I don’t understand you. Independent Nora. No, that is exactly it. You don’t understand me, and I have never understood you either
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