Our club strives to support improvements in education and make a positive difference in our lives by exploring software and hardware that helps us learn and think.
2011-03-15
Ubuntu
So, we discovered that the version of Ubuntu we've been using would not exist in the Spring of 2011, so we completely took it off of the classroom machine, and installed Slax. Slax is a customizable web-built Linux that is easy to use albeit difficult to install. (beware the ides of march!)
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.
GNU's kernel wasn't finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux. The combination of GNU and Linux is the GNU/Linux operating system, now used by millions. (Sometimes this combination is incorrectly called Linux.)
There are many variants or "distributions" of GNU/Linux. We recommend the GNU/Linux distributions that are 100% free software; in other words, entirely freedom-respecting.
The name "GNU" is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"; it is pronounced g-noo, as one syllable with no vowel sound between the g and the n.Source: www.gnu.org
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