GUIs enable you to
use Linux with a keyboard and mouse combination, instead of just typing commands
(as was done in the old days).
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Administrative utilities??”Including hundreds (perhaps thousands) of commands and
graphical windows to do such things as add users, manage disks, monitor the network,
install software, and generally secure and manage your computer.
Applications??”Although no Linux distribution includes all of them, there are literally
thousands of games, office productivity tools, Web browsers, chat windows, multimedia
players, and other applications available for Linux.
Programming tools??”Including programming utilities for creating applications and
libraries for implementing specialty interfaces.
Server features??”Enabling you to offer services from your Linux computer to another
computer on the network. In other words, while Linux includes Web browsers to view
Web pages, it can also be the computer that serves up Web pages to others. Popular
server features include Web, mail, database, printer, file, DNS, and DHCP servers.
Once Linus Torvalds and friends had a working Linux kernel, pulling together a complete open
source operating system was possible because so much of the available ???free??? software was:
Covered by the GNU Public License (GPL) or similar license??”That allowed the
entire operating system to be freely distributed, provided guidelines were followed relating
to how the source code for that software was made available going forward (see
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