Basic Linux Design Features

WELL, LINUX HAS MANY DESIGN FEATURES. THIS INCLUDES 

• WELL, AS MOST OS,LINUX USES STILL THE COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI) AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) OR THROUGH EMBEDDED DEVICES
• ON DESKTOP MACHINES, LINUX OFFERS THE FOLLOWING USER INTERFACES NAMELY: KDE (K Desktop Environment), GNOME, and Xfce
• OTHER GUIs PROVIDE X WINDOWS MANAGERS SUCH AS FVMM, ENLIGHTENMENT, AND WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER. THE WINDOW MANAGER PROVIDES THE CONTROL, PLACEMENT AND APPEARANCE OF INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION WINDOWS AND INTERACTS WITH THE X WINDOWS SYSTEM.
• LINUX SYSTEM PROVIDES CLI, SOME SORT OF SHELL, A TRADITIONAL WAY OF INTERACTING WITH UNIX SYSTEMS.
• IN ADDITION TO THIS, LINUX ALSO OFFERS USERLAND, USES EXCLUSIVELY THE CLI ENVIRONMENT,FOR AUTOMATION AS WELL AS REPITITVE TASKS.

NOT JUST TO THIS USER AND DESIGN INTERFACE, LINUX ALSO OFFERS THE FOLLOWING "DISTROS" WE USE DISTROS BECAUSE ITS A TERM FOR DISTRIBUTION. THIS IS WHAT WE CALL FLAVOR. (NOTE these distros would be discussed later on my blogs).

1. ARCHLINUX- A DISTRO THAT IS BASED ON KISS PRINCIPLE WITH A ROLLING RELEASE SYSTEM.
2. CentOS- A DISTRO THAT DERIVES FROM SAME SOURCES THAT RED HAT USES. LIKE ALL LINUX DISTROS, THIS IS MAINTAINED BY DEDICATED, VOLUNTEERED DEVELOPERS WITH BOTH 100% RED HAT MEANING ITS 100 CAPABLE BUT NO CAPABLE UPSTREAMS COMPATIBLE.
3. DEBIAN- A DISTRO ALSO MAINTAINED BY A VOLUNTEERS AND WHO'S COMMITMENT IS TO FREE SOFTWARE PRINCIPLES.
4. FEDORA- COMMUNITY DISTRIBUTED BY RED HAT.
5. GENTOO- A DISTRO THAT TARGETS POWER USERS. KNOWN FOR ITS FREEBSD PORT- ITS LIKE A AUTOMATION SYSTEM THAT COMPILES APPLICATIONS THROUGH SOURCE-CODES.
6. KNOPPIX- A LIVE CD DISTRO THAT ENABLES A USER TO RUN ON REMOVABLE MEDIA AND WITHOUT INSTALLATION OF THE OS ON THE HARD DRIVE
7. MANDRIVA- POPULAR IN FRANCE AND BRAZIL. THIS DISTRO IS MAINTAINED BY THE SAME FRENCH COMPANY WITH THE SAME NAME.
8. openSUSE (suza)- ORIGINALLY FROM SLACKWARE, SPONSORED BY NOVELL
9. PARDUS- A LINUX DISTRO CREATED IN TURKEY. IT WAS THE PRODUCT OF THE PARDUS PROJECT. ITS NAME COMES FROM THE ANATOLIAN LEOPARD
10. PCLINUXOS- THIS DISTRO IS DERIVED FROM MANDRIVA. IT TOPS 5 IN THE DISTRO WATCH IN AUGUST 9 2008
11. RED HAT ENTERPRISES LINUX- A DERIVATIVE OF FEDORA, IT IS MAINTAINED AND COMMERCIALLY SUPPORTED BY RED HAT
12. SLACKWARE- THE FIRST LINUX DISTRO, APPEARED IN 1993,  AND SINCE THIS YEAR, IT IS STILL MAINTAINED BY PATRICK D. VOLKERDING
13. UBUNTU- A DERIVATIVE OF DEBIAN (DEBIAN BASED) MAINTAINED BY CANONICAL.

ASIDE FROM THIS DISTROS, LINUX HAS ALSO NICHE DISTRIBUTIONS

1. EDUBUNTU- UBUNTU MADE THIS NICHE FOR THE EDUCATION PURPOSES.
2. KNOOPMYTH- THIS IS A COMBINATION OF KNOPPIX AND MYTHTV TO EASE THE BUILDING OF LINUX-DVRs
3. MANY OTHERS TARGETED THE APPLE INC. LIKE mkLinux, YELLOW DOG LINUX AND BLACK LAB LINUX

THERE YOU HAVE IT! THE BASIC DESIGN FEATURES OF THE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM. NEXT STOP THE LINUX DESKTOP, AND LIVE CD FOR LINUX ALSO DON'T FORGET THE DISTROS AS WELL.