Tuesday's Tech Tips: A Brief History of Linux, and How to Try it Yourself! PDF Print E-mail

 


It's easy to give Linux a try with Live CDs and DVDs!

Links mentioned in this week's Tuesday's Tech Tips:

DistroWatch.com:
http://distrowatch.com/

Ubuntu:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

GNU Project:
http://www.gnu.org/
   

Music:

BS - E_volution
From the album "Best of":
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/56529
Creative Commons Licensed CC-BY 3.0 

 

Images:

.| Future |. by Clix
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/487218/
Stock.xchng License

Fernando_Corbato.jpg
Fernando J. Corbató
By Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL photographer
CC-BY-SA-3.0

Ken_Thompson-Dennis_Ritchie.jpg
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, along with Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna (not pictured), Creators of UNIX
By "Hoshie"
Public Domain

Bill_joy.jpg
Bill Joy, Original developer of BSD
By SqueakBox
CC-BY-2.0

Richard_Stallman.jpg
Richard Stallman, Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation
By Victor Powell
CC-BY-SA-3.0

Andrew_Tanenbaum.jpg
Andrew Tanenbaum, Creator of MINIX
By Gerard Meijssen
GFDL

Linus_Torvalds.jpg
Linus Benedict Torvalds, Creator of Linux
By Martin Streicher, Editor-in-Chief, LINUXMAG.com
GFDL

Tux.png
Tux the Penguin
By Larry Ewing, Simon Budig, Anja Gerwinski
No Restrictions, with attribution

GNU.png
GNU Logo
By Aurelio A. Heckert, based on work by Peter Gerwinski, based on the original by Etienne Suvasa
Licence Art Libre (Free Art license)

 

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