Gudi padwa

hi all
"shrikand Puri",
"reshmi gudi"
"limbache pan",
"nave warsh" jaao chhan
"gudi padwayacha" ani "marathi" nava warshchya hardhik shubhecha.."

today is begining new year according to marathi calander and one of auspicious day.
well day is too eat puronpoli and give wishes to each other for their well being and success.
so i wish you all the same.


today I have pledged to start studying hardly for my upcoming examination

we continue our trend of giving knowledge
why dont we see what is linux, i will give you a basic idea of what linus actually is:



What Is Linux?

Linux is a freely distributed, multitasking, multiuser operating system that behaves like UNIX. Designed specifically for the PC, Linux takes advantage of the PC's architecture to give you performance similar to UNIX workstations of a couple of years ago. Linux isn't a small, simple operating system like DOS (even in its latest incarnations). The development of UNIX has resulted in a mish-mash of files and directories, all of which are carried over to Linux for compatibility and programming reasons.


Linux includes a bunch of files for the operating system itself (called the kernel), a ton of utility programs, documentation files, add-on emulators for other operating systems, and much more. The following sections explain what you get when you install Linux on your system.

what is linux kernel?
Linux is a complete multitasking, multiuser operating system that behaves like the UNIX operating system in terms of kernel behavior and peripheral support. Linux has all the features of UNIX, plus several recent extensions that add new versatility to Linux. All source code for Linux and its utilities is freely available.


The Linux kernel was originally developed for the Intel 80386 CPU's protected mode. The 80386 was designed with multitasking in mind (despite the fact that most of the Intel CPUs are used with single-tasking DOS), and Linux makes good use of the advanced features built into the CPU's instruction set. Memory management is especially strong with the 80386 (compared to earlier CPUs). A floating-point emulation routine allows Linux to function on machines that do not have math coprocessors (such as the SX series of Intel CPUs).


Linux allows shared executables so that if more than one copy of a particular application is loaded (either by one user running several identical tasks, or several users running the same task), all the tasks can share the same memory. This process, called copy-on-write pages, makes for much more efficient use of RAM.


The Linux kernel also supports demand paging, which means that only sections of a program that are necessary are read into RAM. To further optimize memory usage, Linux uses a unified memory pool. This pool enables all free memory on the system to be used as disk cache, effectively speeding up access to frequently used programs and data. As memory usage increases, the amount of cache is automatically adjusted.


To support large memory requirements when only small amounts of physical RAM are available, Linux supports swap space. Swap space enables pages of memory to be written to a reserved area of a disk and treated as an extension of physical memory. By moving pages back and forth between the swap space and RAM, Linux can effectively behave as if it had more physical RAM than it does, albeit at the cost of some speed due to the hard drive's slower access.


Linux uses dynamically shared libraries extensively. Dynamically shared libraries use a common library section for many different applications, effectively reducing the size of each application. Linux does allow full library linking (called statically linked libraries) for portability to machines that may not have the dynamic libraries.


To make Linux widely acceptable, it supports a number of different filesystems, including those compatible with DOS and OS/2. Linux's own primary filesystem, called ext2fs, is designed for optimal use of the disk.


Linux is ideally suited for application development and experimentation with new languages. Several different compilers, including C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, LISP, Ada, Basic, and Smalltalk, come with the distribution software. Many of the Linux compilers, tools, debuggers, and editors are from the Free Software Foundation's GNU project.