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Most of the people are believe in that Linux is so difficult to understand and only experts can do that. But I want to say It is not a difficult task as you thought because there are lot of free documentations and lot of free help guidelines available. Today, Linux is growing faster in popularity in home use and office use due to several reasons (we can discuss those later). My goal of writing this article series is to show you that Linux is simple and very fun and can be used for all our day today purposes without any problem.

History

To discuss about the popularity of Linux, we need to go back in time about 30-40 years ago...

At that stage Computers were big as houses. While the sizes of those computers posed lots of problems, there was one thing that made this even worse. That is, each and every computer had a their own operating system. Software created for the one given system didn't run on another system. It was difficult, both for the users and developers of those systems.

A team of researchers in the Bell Labs Laboratories started finding a solution for this software compatibility problem in 1969. As a solution they developed a new Operating System, which was

1. Simple and elegant.

2. Written in the C programming language instead of in assembly code.

– It was originally developed at Bell Labs (Ken Thompson in 1969) at AT&T

– In 1973, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson rewrote the code in C and was distributed to universities freely

3. Able to recycle code.

The Bell Labs developers named their project "UNIX".

The code that written in C language which is now commonly named the UNIX kernel.

The C programming language was developed specially for creating this Unix operating system.

Thompson (left) and Ritchie (center) receiving the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton
for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.

At that stage the Unix operating system was only used in Mainframes, Universities and computers of the large financial corporations of the governments.

After that smaller computers were being developed and in the end of the 80's lots of people had home computers. At that time there were several Unix versions available for the Personal computer architecture. But they were terribly slow. Due to that reason most people used Microsoft DOS or Microsoft Windows 3.1 on their personal computers.

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