A Linux release is a set of files for a complete Linux system. Various changes made by the Linux community are incorporated into each release. Linux releases are identified by numbers. These numbers are of the form X.YY.ZZ, where X is between 0 and 9,...

Your 4MB of RAM will make X run very slowly. You should have at least 8MB of RAM for running programs in X. You will need another 6MB to 10MB of disk space for the GCC compiler in addition to X if you want to develop applications for X. Do...

Linux will also run on a number of laptop machines (some laptops use certain software interrupts to power the memory, and Linux doesn't work well with these systems to date). The best way to find out if Linux will run on your hardware is just to try it...

Now that you know a little about the good and bad points ofLinux, let's see what's required in terms of hardware. Unlike some other versions of UNIX for the PC, Linux is very small. You can run an entire system from a single, high-density 5.25-inch...

* Some of the features on your favorite UNIX system may not be available for your Linux system. Your choice in this matter is to either write the application yourself, convince someone else to write it, or find an alternative process (the...