Today I learned quite a number of stuff. To begin with, I now know that for Linux, its founder only created the Linux Kernel, and the rest of its components have totally nothing to do with its founder.
There are so many distributions (or type) of Linux, not because of the development team, but because of distribution people who put together the different components of Linux (such as Messenger for Linux, FireFox for Linux) , and they called their combination names. An example would be Ubuntu and Fedora.
Currently, the most popular Linux OS is Ubuntu, not because it has a nice name, but because the person who combined the components to form Ubuntu focuses more on making it work well, rather than being concerned about the availability of the source code for its components.
Another key learning point today would be the use of FTP,SSH service and Remote Desktop in Linux. Indeed Linux doesn`t like me, encountered many failure while trying to install and run Remote Desktop. At last Kelvin came to my help, and another GUI Remote Desktop service, called vino, was installed and used, and I was gald it finally managed to work. The Remote Desktop service installed in Linux can not only be used to Remote Windows Desktop, but also MAC desktop, and this is what Windows Remote Desktop is currently unable to do
Terminal commands (or Command Prompt commands) in Linux were also taught to us today. Although some common ones such as cd, mkdir are common to me as they exists in windows, there are many that I have never see before, such as ls, killtask, vi. I am also taught regarding the Linux's structure for its folder, and how is it different from Window's structure.
The last learning point of today would be GNOME and KDE in Linux. GNOME and KDE are developed by 2 different groups, and they are responsible for the display interfaces in Linux. GNOME focuses more on stability whereas KDE focuses more on Special effects, such as transparency. Although KDE does look much better, but it is not as stable, and not too compatible with certain programs too.
For instance, if another machine were to Remote to a computer running Linux using KDE, the Client connecting to the Linux PC running will see some weird colours effect, that is not seen on the actual PC
The day passed so quick that it was like a blink of the eyes, and tomorrow I will be getting started on learning more about C! Feeling excited!!
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