It provides all necessary components (tools, service and programmes) for a fully operating system. It is the most-used OS for desktop and server application.
Linux is an open-source platform where user can download it and modify its source code. Linux is a popular open-source operating system which is also referred to as Linux kernel. Ubuntu has free software available for all and funded through a portfolio of services provided by canonical. Hence Mark Shuttleworth decided to make a team of developers from the one of established project Debian and create an easy to use Linux desktop: Ubuntu. Linux was already established in 2004, but it was not open source for every user. Linux has come with a lot of distros and its popular distribution is Ubuntu. Ubuntu and Mac are the second most common desktop OS after windows. In general, OS is a software that allows users to run other application programmes in a computing device. (source: Wiki).Īll major platforms (hardware and software) require an operating system.
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
