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11-20-2008, 06:33 AM
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linux
what is the history of the linux?
who is the creater of the linux?
what difference between man and linux?
what is the first version of the linux?
why we use the linux?
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11-20-2008, 06:54 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Toulon (France)
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Try google!
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11-20-2008, 07:00 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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You just set off the "homework alarm". Please tell us the context of these questions.
There are entire books that give the detailed answers to most of your questions. You will also very quickly find most of the answers with a Google search. (Just enter each question--one at a time--into a Google search window.)
I'll get you started on two of the questions:
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what difference between man and linux?
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Lot's of ambiguity here---I'll assume that "man" means the species "Homo sapiens". The big difference is that man is still smarter than computer----there are of course isolated exceptions.. . By contrast, I often feel that Linux is smarter than I am. But then I recognize that we have different kinds of intelligence.....
Who is "we" in this context? I could wax eloquent about why I use Linux, but what might be more important is why YOU use it.
Last edited by pixellany; 11-20-2008 at 07:02 AM.
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11-20-2008, 08:31 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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searching google for 'history of Linux' is rather effective.. and would answer 3 of the 5 questions easily..
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11-20-2008, 11:23 AM
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Russia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jaspreet2586
what is the history of the linux?
who is the creater of the linux?
what difference between man and linux?
what is the first version of the linux?
why we use the linux?
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You can easily find answers yourself.
links to start with:
www.google.com
en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
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11-20-2008, 03:46 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Directly above centre of the earth, UK
Distribution: SuSE, plus some hopping
Posts: 4,070
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Quote:
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what difference between man and linux?
Lot's of ambiguity here---I'll assume that "man" means the species "Homo sapiens".
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Now I assumed (wrongly?) that the OP meant the man (manpage) system. If so, type 'man man' and that should give you some information.
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11-20-2008, 03:58 PM
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Registered: May 2008
Location: planet earth
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Why would anyone ask silly questions like this except for homework? That's not a particularly intelligent teacher either for asking questions like this.
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11-20-2008, 04:38 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: CentOS 6/7
Posts: 1,375
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what is the history of the linux?
Long but interesting.
who is the creater of the linux?
Really, this who sounds like a brillaint guy.
what difference between man and linux?
51
what is the first version of the linux?
Minux
why we use the linux?
Because we can
Now go do your homework properly like those above said and actually research it =P!
Last edited by r3sistance; 11-20-2008 at 04:40 PM.
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11-20-2008, 05:01 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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51 ?? Shouldn't that be 42 ?
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11-20-2008, 05:04 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: CentOS 6/7
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Actually I was treating letters of the alphabet like numbers, ie a=1, b=2, c=3 but looking at it again, I think it should have been 50 not 51 ^^;;.
m = 13, a = 1, n = 14, total = 28
l = 12, i = 9, n = 14, u = 19, x = 24, total = 78
difference is 50 if I calculated that right =P.
Last edited by r3sistance; 11-20-2008 at 05:05 PM.
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11-20-2008, 05:46 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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Originally Posted by salasi
Now I assumed (wrongly?) that the OP meant the man (manpage) system. If so, type 'man man' and that should give you some information.
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This would work only if you could also enter "man linux", which you cannot.
"diff man linux" is no help either.
I'm afraid there may be no hope.......
I hope you recognize that I am not even trying to be serious. If your statement above was serious, then my concern is that he asked the DIFFERENCE between man and linux. That's not something you'll get from the man pages.
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11-21-2008, 01:02 AM
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Originally Posted by John VV
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No, I think he just doesn't know how to use google.
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11-21-2008, 01:05 AM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
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Originally Posted by pinniped
Why would anyone ask silly questions like this except for homework? That's not a particularly intelligent teacher either for asking questions like this.
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Yeah...I think it's not really homework, though. I think he or she just wanted to post something.
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11-21-2008, 06:38 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Directly above centre of the earth, UK
Distribution: SuSE, plus some hopping
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Originally Posted by pixellany
This would work only if you could also enter "man linux", which you cannot.
"diff man linux" is no help either.
I'm afraid there may be no hope.......
I hope you recognize that I am not even trying to be serious. If your statement above was serious, then my concern is that he asked the DIFFERENCE between man and linux. That's not something you'll get from the man pages.
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He was also advised to use google and I understand that he would have to do the 'diff' bit in his head. Now my opinion was that he was trying to get a short cut from doing something like homework (although, you'd have hoped that the teacher was at least able to spell...maybe its for the introduction to some class presentation and is still homework, but these are not teacher-set questions), so I was quite happy to advise something where he had to do the work himself.
I wasn't at all clear whether you were being serious, and, to be frank (and I don't want to be insulting in any way, this is just a fact) with the opportunity of advising him to get on with the work that he should have done before he asked a question, I didn't care.
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