Linux / Unix

Linux is an open source software and anyone can take it and create this own Linux (of distribution). It's why you can find a lot of distribution on the market :

• Red Hat
• Oracle Enterprise Linux (which is derived from Red Hat)
• Ubuntu 8.04 ( The Linux reference ?)
• Mandriva Spring One 2008 ( The challenger ? )
• Fedora 9 ( The most recent version )
• Open Suse 10.3 ( a Swiss army knife )

The most Linux GUI are :

• KDE (refer more to the Windows interface)
• Gnome (refer more to the Mac Os interface)

• Linux - Installation
• Linux - Command
• Linux - How to transfer files between systems (such as Windows and Linux)
• Linux - File System
• Linux - RPM (The Red Hat Package Manager) - How to
• Linux - Enable Remote Desktop on Oracle Enterprise Linux / Red Hat with Gnome
• Linux - Installation of Java 1.5 on Redhat and Firefox 3.5
• Linux - Environment Variable
• nmon: A free tool to analyze AIX and Linux performance
• Linux - How to know which program take a port ?
• Linux - Services
• Linux - How to know the version of the distribution (Operating system)
• Linux - Vi
• Linux - How to edit a file?
• Linux - X Windows System (commonly X or X11)
• Linux - Remote Client
• Linux - Mounting File Systems (CDROM, NFS, SMB, ...)
• Linux - How to install Telnet on Red Hat/OEL ?
• Linux - Storage
• Linux - Ressource Monitoring (Memory, Disk, CPU)
• Linux - User Managment
• Linux - Network

A daemon is a UNIX application that runs in the background and provides services.

putty is a communications client program to establish a telnet or ssh connection to a target server system.

Cygwin provides a Unix-like environment under Windows. The installation directory (by default, c:\cygwin) is the root of the Unix-like file system, which contains bin, etc, home, tmp, and usr directories as would be found on a GNU/Linux or other Unix system.