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Linux

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What is Linux?

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

Linux is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Portable(Multiplatform)MultitaskingMulti UserMultiprocessor SMP SupportMultithreading SupportVirtual MemoryHierarchical File SystemGraphical User Interface (X Window System)

Linux Pros & Cons

Pros of Linux

  • ✓Open Source
  • ✓Free
  • ✓Reliability
  • ✓Safe

Cons of Linux

No cons listed yet.

Linux Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Linux?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

CentOS

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

iOS

iOS

It is the operating system that presently powers many of the mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It is designed to make your iPhone and iPad experience even faster, more responsive, and more delightful.

Android OS

Android OS

It is a mobile platform which powers phones, tablets, watches, TVs, cars etc. It makes doing business easier, in the office or out in the field. Manage entire fleets of devices with a touch. Keep corporate data protected with built-in security. And help your employees get more done.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Linux Integrations

PowerShell, Lucet, GB Studio, Azure Pipelines, Stan and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Linux. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Linux.

PowerShell
PowerShell
Lucet
Lucet
GB Studio
GB Studio
Azure Pipelines
Azure Pipelines
Stan
Stan
Oh My ZSH
Oh My ZSH
Supervisord
Supervisord
Komiser
Komiser
FileZilla
FileZilla
tmux
tmux
Mr.2
Mr.2
Firefox
Firefox

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Mr-LiuDC
Mr-LiuDC

Apr 9, 2019

Needs adviceonSpring BootSpring BootSpring CloudSpring CloudElasticsearchElasticsearch

Spring Boot Spring Cloud Elasticsearch MySQL Redis RabbitMQ Kafka MongoDB GitHub Linux IntelliJ IDEA

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fraigo
fraigo

Mar 21, 2019

Needs adviceonVisual Studio CodeVisual Studio CodeGitHubGitHubLinuxLinux

I use Visual Studio Code because at this time is a mature software and I can do practically everything using it.

  • It's free and open source: The project is hosted on GitHub and it’s free to download, fork, modify and contribute to the project.

  • Multi-platform: You can download binaries for different platforms, included Windows (x64), MacOS and Linux (.rpm and .deb packages)

  • LightWeight: It runs smoothly in different devices. It has an average memory and CPU usage. Starts almost immediately and it’s very stable.

  • Extended language support: Supports by default the majority of the most used languages and syntax like JavaScript, HTML, C#, Swift, Java, PHP, Python and others. Also, VS Code supports different file types associated to projects like .ini, .properties, XML and JSON files.

  • Integrated tools: Includes an integrated terminal, debugger, problem list and console output inspector. The project navigator sidebar is simple and powerful: you can manage your files and folders with ease. The command palette helps you find commands by text. The search widget has a powerful auto-complete feature to search and find your files.

  • Extensible and configurable: There are many extensions available for every language supported, including syntax highlighters, IntelliSense and code completion, and debuggers. There are also extension to manage application configuration and architecture like Docker and Jenkins.

  • Integrated with Git: You can visually manage your project repositories, pull, commit and push your changes, and easy conflict resolution.( there is support for SVN (Subversion) users by plugin)

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Milos Ilic
Milos Ilic

Mar 19, 2019

Needs adviceonLaravelLaravelZend FrameworkZend FrameworkMySQLMySQL

React AngularJS jQuery

Laravel Zend Framework

MySQL MongoDB Cassandra

Docker

Linux

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Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson

Mar 15, 2019

Needs adviceonUbuntuUbuntuLinuxLinuxArch LinuxArch Linux

I once used Ubuntu as my exclusive Linux distro, but then I decided to switch my primary operating system to Arch Linux.

While more difficult to install, Arch Linux offered more flexibility during the installation process which allowed me to customize my system to fit me perfectly. With Ubuntu, instead of installing everything i did want, I had to remove everything that I didn't need.

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Omid Farhang
Omid Farhang

Sr. Full Stack Developer

Mar 14, 2019

Needs adviceonLaravelLaravelApache HTTP ServerApache HTTP ServerMySQLMySQL

I had a Wallet/Exchange project, I have been developing both #Backend and #Frontend, Giving #REST API to mobile developers too. I decided to use Laravel for backend and build my #RESTfulAPI over that. So I used Laravel Passport for #JWT Authentication and host it over #cPanel hosting using Apache HTTP Server and using MySQL for database. Not the perfect choice but it worked perfectly as a starter for project. We used GitLab private repository for this project and we have been slightly unhappy because of several down-time we had over GitLab. All our team used Linux based system for developing project so we shared our bash scripts over the repo and saved lots of time.

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