Linux-SourceStore
This is a store with a difference, as many of the things we're promoting are available free of charge!! If, however, you'd like physical media for your products and wish to avoid downloading, then here is the place to be.
This is a store with a difference, as many of the things we're promoting are available free of charge!! If, however, you'd like physical media for your products and wish to avoid downloading, then here is the place to be.
Linux is very different from Windows. It is not provided as an operating system on its own, but instead is offered as a "distribution". A distribution includes the core Linux Operating System, and a series of packages chosen by the distributor to optimise Linux as they see fit. Special Linux distributions exist, for example, to run just from CD, and also to run on systems with restricted memory.
There are many Linux applications, from the trivial to the heavyweight. The huge advantage of Linux is that many of applications are available free, and in addition the source code is available. Normally charges are made for support, not the application itself.
Linux is not only for serious servers; you can play games on Linux too. For example, Doom and Quake were originally written to run on Unix (and hence Linux) systems.
There are many books on Linux and the applications which run on Linux, so here is a selection.