Linux Format is the UK's first Linux-specific magazine, and as of 2013 was the best-selling Linux title in the UK. It is also exported to many countries...
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Popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu. Commercial distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise...
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ELF format has replaced older executable formats in various environments. It has replaced a.out and COFF formats in Unix-like operating systems: Linux Solaris...
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of the first Linux distributions to support ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) binaries instead of the older a.out format. Red Hat Linux introduced a...
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Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Ubuntu (which is in turn based on Debian), bundled with a variety of free and open-source...
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The Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is a disk encryption specification created by Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004 and originally intended for Linux. LUKS implements...
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RPM Package Manager (redirect from RPM-based Linux distribution)
file format and the package manager program itself. RPM was intended primarily for Linux distributions; the file format is the baseline package format of...
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Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project...
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Linus Torvalds (redirect from Linux Torvalds)
1999, he was involved in 86open, helping select the standard binary format for Linux and Unix. In 1999, he was named by the MIT Technology Review TR100...
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is purposely required. Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux were the original major distributions that used the .rpm file format, which today is used in several...
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