Sunday, November 9, 2008

Operating Systems

All the computers and servers the company uses will need operating systems to run properly. To save money we will probably be using Linux (at least for servers) since it's free. Linux was "originally" created by Linus Torvalds but is open-source.

Basically, anyone can view/edit the source code for Linux and there are therefore many different version out there. One popular one is called Ubuntu. Since anyone can view/edit Linux it basically belongs to everybody, although there are some companies that have their own version they charge for.

Operating systems are an important part of my entrepreneurial idea because without them none of the computers would run. We'd have hardware but we would be unable to run any software. The server hosting the website needs an operating system to actually be able to host it.

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