The Linux Operating System Section

The Linux Operating System Section - This section contains a large amount of tutorials and information about Linux. I present a form that allows you to read it and do not need hard to find. some of you may already have heard of linux, some stories Linux users, who generally do their own install and configuration of the system, are more likely to understand the technology than users of Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. They are often called hacker or geek. But the stereotype is increasingly reduced with increasing user-friendly nature and the growing breadth of Linux distribution users. Linux has made a pretty good achievement in the server computer market and special-purpose computer, such as image rendering engine and a web server. Linux is also gaining in popularity in the desktop computer market.well to more clear about the linux operating system I will explain.

Linux is a principle to a combination of LAMP-server program, short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl / PHP / Python. LAMP has achieved widespread popularity among developers Web.Linux also often used as the operating system embeded. Linux procurement costs low allows its use in equipment such as the Simputer, a low-cost computer that is aimed at low-income population in developing countries. With desktop environments like KDE and GNOME, Linux offers a user interface more like the Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows instead of a text line interfaces such as Unix. Therefore, more graphics program can be found on Linux that offers a variety of functions that exist in commercial utility.


Linux Operating System consists of the kernel, system programs and application programs. The kernel is the core of the operating system that governs the use of memory, input output devices, processes, use of the files on the file system and others. The kernel also provides a set of services used to access the kernel is called a system call. This system call is used to implement the various services needed by the operating system. Program system and all other programs that run on top of the kernel is called user mode. The fundamental difference between the system program and application programs are programs that the system needed an operating system can run while the application programs are programs that are required to run a particular application. Example: The daemon is a program of systems and word processing (word processor) is an application program.

Important part of the Linux kernel consists of several important parts, such as process management, memory management, hardware device drivers, filesystem drivers, network management and others. But the most important part is the management process and memory management. Memory management to handle the memory usage, swap area, parts of the kernel and for the buffer cache. Management process to handle manufacturing processes and process scheduling. At the base of the kernel contains a hardware device drivers for each type of supported hardware.