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Linux is a Unix clone for
386/486-based PCs written from scratch by Linux Torvalds
with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across
the Net. It aims towards POSIX compliance.
It has all the features
you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including
true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand
loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management
and TCP/IP networking.
It is distributed under the GNU General
Public License - see the accompanying COPYING
file for more details.
Linux是一套專為80x86個人電腦所設計32位元的UNIX作業系統,運作穩定且有效率,從386到Pentinum、P6都可以執行。依循POSIX標準,與UNIX完全相容。
創始者為芬蘭藉的Linuz Torvalds,加上許多UNIX程式設計師及Internet高手協助開發而成。Linux核心不使用AT&T或其他專屬性的程式碼;主要軟體來自MIT免費軟體的GNU專案。承襲開放式原始碼(Open
Source)的精神,所有Linux Source Code均可免費取得。支援完整的網路軟體,包括TCP/IP、Email、Emacs、X
Window、NFS、NIS、News、WWW等等。
Linux是一套免費的作業系統,沒有版權問題,軟體取得容易,且網路上應用程式充足,可稱得上是作業系統的新寵兒。而且提供完整的說明文件,及免費的系統原始程式;對於使用者及程式發展者,均是一個成長的絕佳環境。 |