Red Hat Fedora Linux Secrets
Chapter One
An Overview
of Linux
Secrets in This Chapter
Red Hat, Fedora Project, and Fedora Core 4
Dynamic Device Files with udev 8
Linux as a UNIX Platform 9
Posix Compliance 10
Linux Standard Base (LSB) 11
Linux Desktop 13
The world of operating systems changed forever when Linus Torvalds of the
University of Helsinki in Finland decided to build a UNIX-like operating system for
the PC. What started as a simple task-switching example, with two processes that printed
AAAA ... and BBBB ... on a dumb terminal, has grown into a full-fledged, multitasking,
multiuser operating system that rivals commercially available UNIX systems for Intel
80x86 systems. Many programmers around the world have contributed code and collaborated
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