Why use Linux - Revision history

Hgibson at 09:02, 3 July 2013

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Do seemingly arbitrary things

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Runs Forever

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Aesthetically Pleasing

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Programmer Friendly

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Community

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Software

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Security

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Security

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Licensing

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−	~~;Hilton's notes~~
−	~~#For beginners we should stay away from CLI references. Everything must be GUI based.~~
−	~~#To ease the transition from Microsoft, we should explain how to run MS software and how to find alternatives.~~
−	~~#In addition to the above, explain how easy it is to install software safely using a GUI.~~
−	~~#Also for beginners, perhaps not mention other distributions, this will confuse them since they are used to a mono-culture of software with Microsoft.~~
	==Licensing==		==Licensing==
	[http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Maties_Ubuntu:About License]		[http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Maties_Ubuntu:About License]

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 ===Do seemingly arbitrary things===
-You can easily use your computer either to help find aliens with seti@home http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ or do research on protein folding with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home. Ofcourse you can do most of these on windows, but you'd have to download the installers, and also the seti@home installer will show up as a false positive on AVG.
+You can easily use your computer either to help find aliens with [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ seti@home]  or do research on protein folding with
 ===Cryptocurrencies===
 With new malware aimed at stealing your crypto bitcoins stored on your computer and in some cases even using your computer to mine for them, Windows would not be a good choice for mining for Bitcoin or Litecoin. With Linux ,mining for Litecoins or Bitcoins is very easy to setup, and also easy to secure.

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 Ubuntu LTS offers anything from 5-10 years support. Centos has "“In general every release receives bugfixes, feature enhancements and new hardware support until 4 years after general availability. And security fixes until 7 years after general availability (beginning with CentOS-5, this period has been extended from 4 to approx. 7 and from 7 to 10 years {assuming the upstream sources remain available for ten years}).”
-http://wiki.centos.org/Download (End of Life)
+[http://wiki.centos.org/Download End of Life CentOS]
 ===Do seemingly arbitrary things===

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 Some screenshots:
-*http://i.imgur.com/aKiQpdD.png
-*http://i.imgur.com/SNN4JlT.jpg
+*[http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml Gentoo Desktop Art]
 *http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml
 ===Runs Forever===

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 On Windows it is a very tedious process and can be rather time consuming. Doing web dev on Linux is a good idea even if you are using Windows and using a Linux virtual machine with Ubuntu server, it would make your life much easier.
-In the development environment it is becoming more and more important to make use of Virtualization of Operating systems. Linux offers several virtualization platforms, of which the two most notable are Xen and KVM, both very easy to install and configure. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libvirt
+In the development environment it is becoming more and more important to make use of Virtualization of Operating systems. Linux offers several virtualization platforms, of which the two most notable are Xen and KVM, both very easy to install and configure. Have a look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libvirt Libvirt]
 ===Automation===

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 ==Community==
- http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Support
+[http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Support Support]
 *The Linux and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community in general is very helpful and always there to help.
 *There are also countless forums, and user created websites with guides and tutorials.
 ==Linux By Design==

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 ==Software==
- http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Software
 Software for any purpose imaginable available free of charge,that either form part of the base system(the default install components/programms) and is thus already installed or can be downloaded and installed with very little effort.

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 ==Security==
- [http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Security Security]
 *Modern unix variants are built with security in mind, with very advanced security features and software available, both for offense and defense.
 *The world's most secure systems will either be running Linux or some variant.

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 #Also for beginners, perhaps not mention other distributions, this will confuse them since they are used to a mono-culture of software with Microsoft.
 ==Licensing==
- http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Maties_Ubuntu:About
+[http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Maties_Ubuntu:About License]
-''You don't have to pay to use Linux.'' The Linux kernel is licensed as GPL. The GUI is licensed as GNU.
+''You don't have to pay to use Linux.'' <p>The Linux kernel is licensed as GPL.</p><p> The GUI is licensed as GNU.
 ==Security==