Windows has been our only operating system that can be available for our computers in the past years until a group of hackers, especially Richard Stallman, had come up with an idea to create another operating system that can be shared to anyone. It was Richard Stallman was the founder of the free software movement. In able to create the GNU project he had built the free software movement and without his works, Linux and Open Source will not evolve from what they are right now.
According to Linus Torvalds, an Operating System is described as cannot be seen by the users and never supposes to see it. Nobody really use an operating system and people use programs on their computers and the only purpose of an operating system was to help those programs to run. It is a great challenge to them to create their own operating system because the programmers will start to scratch. They cannot use Unix to their project because it was proprietary and forbidden to share Unix. In creating an operating system, this needs lots of program like kernel that allocates resources to all other programs, compiler that translates from the source codes that a programmer can understand into numbers that the computer can understand. There are lots of programs must be needed to have a complete system.
At first Linux was called as "free software" that has been misinterpreted by the users. They intend that this software is just free or cheap software and this could not have the quality of the other. All of the concern people had the meeting to change the term and since they really want to tell that in this system they want to be open and the source code was available to everyone. It was later became "open source". The Open Source Definition written by Bruce Perens indicates nine rights and these were that the Linux had been use to define its term Open Source. On October 7,1999, VA Linux Systems filed with the S.E.C. for its Initial Public Offering and it was on December 9,1999 VA Linux had begin to trade its stock.
Linux and the Open Source had been a great influence in our technology. Now programmers can learn more and explore new things to it. In fact having an operating system that is open source is a great advantage to the other OS’s. Now, there’s the freedom to share and redistribute programs that would be modified more for better results. Open source program should be used in school and other institution in order to have a better knowledge in operating systems and other open source programs.
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