Assignment for school

[aardbeienmelk]

I am in a Linux class right now and our first assignment is to join a Linux forum and ask some questions about Linux. So here goes.

1. How many different Linux OS's are there? In my class we only learn Fedora and Red Hat.

2. What is the OS with the most GUI in it?

I guess that will do for now. Thanks for helping out with this assignment, and I hope to be getting a lot of help from these forums during this class.

[oz]

I am in a Linux class right now and our first assignment is to join a Linux forum and ask some questions about Linux. So here goes.

1. How many different Linus OS's are there? In my class we only learn Fedora and Red Hat.

2. What is the OS with the most GUI in it?

I guess that will do for now. Thanks for helping out with this assignment, and I hope to be getting a lot of help from these forums during this class.

Hello and welcome to the forums!

There is only one Linux OS, although there are lots of Linux distributions. I highly doubt that there is an accurate count on how many.

I'd have to say that Windows is the most GUI oriented OS if that's what you mean. Linux has plenty of GUI options but it does seem to be more command line oriented than Windows, in my own opinion.

You might also want to keep in mind that homework questions are not allowed:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ums-rules.html

Best of luck to you with your class.

[techieMoe]

I am in a Linux class right now and our first assignment is to join a Linux forum and ask some questions about Linux. So here goes.

1. How many different Linus OS's are there? In my class we only learn Fedora and Red Hat.

Quite a few. I don't think it's possible to know how many but I'd estimate somewhere in the order of thousands. DistroWatch lists 317 of the most popular, but there are many more than that with particular target audiences.

Those don't include the number of embedded Linux systems built into devices (anything from a network router to a hospital bed) or the custom systems used by educational and research institutions. Being freely-available and freely-modifiable makes Linux a good choice for these kinds of applications.

2. What is the OS with the most GUI in it?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean which Linux distribution has the largest number of graphical tools? Which has the most advanced and/or comprehensive desktop environment?

[Freston]

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1. How many different Linus OS's are there? In my class we only learn Fedora and Red Hat.

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. is a good resource for getting to know about different distributions.

On a more technical note, Linux is 'just' the kernel. It's not the OS itself. You might compare Linux with the Windows NT kernel. Red Hat and Fedore are examples of Linux distributions, that means they are operating Systems that use Linux, among other components.

2. What is the OS with the most GUI in it?

Not quite sure what you mean by that. Do you mean Linux distro's in particular, otherwise I'm going to have to agree with Ozar and say Windows is probably the most GUI based OS... although OSX might also be a candidate for the title. I'm not to familiar with that though.

[D-cat]

Naw, OSX is just X/Darwin on top of FreeBSD. There's a lot of similarities to Linux, in base functionality anyway.

In the distant past, I would have given the award to AmigaOS, since it booted right into workbench, but you could back down to a CLI. AROS still carries on the legacy, though it's not really a mainstreamer. Since the Windows NT Kernel mainstreamed, I have to concede Windows the most GUI based OS.

[aardbeienmelk]

Hello and welcome to the forums!



You might also want to keep in mind that homework questions are not allowed:

:

Technically our assignment was to join a forum and ask general questions. These are not homework questions.

Thank you to everyone that replied. When I say OS I mean the distributions of Linux. I'm not quite used to some of the terminology yet. I'm still used to Windows, and I'm hoping to change that soon.

[oz]

Technically our assignment was to join a forum and ask general questions. These are not homework questions.

Yes, I knew this wasn't the typical homework question and that's why we responded to your thread rather than locking or deleting it. Hope you'll have fun and do well in your class.

[whych]

Yes, I knew this wasn't the typical homework question and that's why we responded to your thread rather than locking or deleting it. Hope you'll have fun and do well in your class.

At least he was honest and stated the reason for the question.

Welcome to the world of linux, something that for the average windows user is mystic because it it infinitely user configurable.
When it comes to choice of desktop gui, linux offers a multitude of choices from kde/gnome to more trimmed down version.
Like distributions, the choice of desktop is a matter of personal taste or dictated by hardware or system use. Likewise when it comes to whether you use a gui or not - it is usually determined by the installation type. A dedicated firewall, doesn't need a gui, because you will probably never login to it directly, but rather from a remote location.

Another good idea, is to try some of the other distros around by downloading their live versions, which will run from cd or usb stick to get a taste of the freedom of choice that is linux.
No one of the mainstream distro's can be said to better than the other, since all the available opensource packages can be installed on any of them, and the final choice you make depends on what suits you and your needs the most.

[Shannon_VanWagner]

I dugg this article at "Assignment for school - Join Linux Forums" ( digg(dot)com/d31Uuh ) , hopefully more Linuxers will respond.

As for your questions:
1. How many different Linux OS's are there? In my class we only learn Fedora and Red Hat.
I've heard there around 250 or so, with new ones being added regularly. As mentioned before, distrowatch(dot)com has a good list, also checkout livecdlist(dot)com


2. What is the OS with the most GUI in it?
As for the most GUI, I will assume you mean the GNU+Linux with the least amount of terminal-required configuration. My guesses are Linux Mint, OpenSuSe, Ubuntu, and Fedora (in that order).

For a great Command Line Tutorial, checkout William E. Shotts' "The Linux Command Line - Second Draft" from LinuxCommand(dot)org ( digg(dot)com/linux_unix/The_Linux_Command_Line_Second_Draft_LinuxCommand_o rg )

Also, if you end up using Ubuntu, checkout ubuntuguide(dot)org

Also, checkout lxer(dot)com and use this google search term "linux tutorial site:digg(dot)com"

Also, see digg(dot)com/d31UWQW for some great BASH tutorials.

So did you choose to take a Linux class? If so, why?

Also, where is the Linux class at, and who is the instructor? I'd like to tell him/her thanks for making our world better by offering a class for Linux.

Congratulations on your Freedom!

Shannon VanWagner
humans-enabled(dot)com

Finally, checkout some of these links for more information...
FREE YOURSELF, Use GNU+LINUX! gnu(dot)org | fsf(dot)org | linux(dot)com | getgnulinux(dot)org | whylinuxisbetter.net | openoffice(dot)org | humans-enabled(dot)com | ubuntu(dot)com | makethemove.net

[jerrag]

Perhaps you are refering to KDE and Gnome?

If so, you can put most windows handlers on most versions of Linux, there are a ton of those out there too, besides KDE and GNOME howerver most distritubitions come with one or the other.

Take a look at the flavors of Ubuntu for a good example on different types of off the shelf front end window handlers that are available, then look around you can get Linux to look like almost any OS you wish from OS X to Windows 3.1 (one of my olf favorite OS's)

Linux is a wonderful OS and full of all sorts of toys to change the way you access your free software.

I have been playing with it since I took a Unix course in college back when OS 2 was the new kid on the block and Windows 95 was just being introduced. Still have nearly all my systems duel booting into Linux and Windows (simply because some of the things I need to do do need Windows. I know I could use wine....)