The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary - Audio

The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary - Audio

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August 18, 2011 Introducing Linux
Some say Leenix, some Leenux, some say Linux. So how do you say it?
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August 18, 2011 Transcript -- Introducing Linux
Some say Leenix, some Leenux, some say Linux. So how do you say it?
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August 18, 2011 Linux - Origins
Richard Stallman broke free of the closed proprietary world of UNIX computing when he announced the GNU project in 1983. But GNU needed a kernel. In 2001 Linus Torvalds gave it one. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital Tipping Point project, under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Richard Stallman must be quoted in entire sentences only.
6 min
August 18, 2011 Transcript -- Linux - Origins
Richard Stallman broke free of the closed proprietary world of UNIX computing when he announced the GNU project in 1983. But GNU needed a kernel. In 2001 Linus Torvalds gave it one. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital Tipping Point project, under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Richard Stallman must be quoted in entire sentences only.
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August 18, 2011 Linux - Open Source Software
When the open source community use the word free they mean freedom; the freedom to use software in any way that you want, the freedom to alter it and the freedom to give it away. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital Tipping Point project, under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Richard Stallman must be quoted in entire sentences only.
7 min
August 18, 2011 Transcript -- Linux - Open Source Software
When the open source community use the word free they mean freedom; the freedom to use software in any way that you want, the freedom to alter it and the freedom to give it away. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital Tipping Point project, under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Richard Stallman must be quoted in entire sentences only.
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August 18, 2011 Linux - Distros, dogs and the UNIX family
Linux like the pet dog comes in many breeds, known as distributions or distros. In the same way that all dogs are descended from wolves all distros are descended from Gnu/Linux and the different types are bred for specific purposes.
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August 18, 2011 Transcript -- Linux - Distros, dogs and the UNIX family
Linux like the pet dog comes in many breeds, known as distributions or distros. In the same way that all dogs are descended from wolves all distros are descended from Gnu/Linux and the different types are bred for specific purposes.
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August 18, 2011 Linux in everyday life - from smart-phones to supercomputers
Linux runs on everything from your workaday wireless router to CERN’s most powerful super-computer. Apache – the wide world’s web server of choice – is Linux based, as is your Android Smartphone and your local cash machine.
7 min
August 18, 2011 Transcript -- Linux in everyday life - from smart-phones to supercomputers
Linux runs on everything from your workaday wireless router to CERN’s most powerful super-computer. Apache – the wide world’s web server of choice – is Linux based, as is your Android Smartphone and your local cash machine.
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About The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary - Audio

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The Linux Operating System is 20 years old. This podcast series, presented by the Senior Lecturer in Computing at The Open University, Blaine Price, tells the story of an extraordinary operating…

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