Richard Stallman broke free of the closed proprietary world of UNIX computing when he announced the GNU project in 1983. But GNU needed a kernel. In 2001 Linus Torvalds gave it one. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital T

Transcript -- Linux - Origins

Aug 18th, 2011

Transcript -- Richard Stallman broke free of the closed proprietary world of UNIX computing when he announced the GNU project in 1983. But GNU needed a kernel. In 2001 Linus Torvalds gave it one. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of

Linux - Open Source Software

Aug 18th, 2011 6m 39s

When the open source community use the word free they mean freedom; the freedom to use software in any way that you want, the freedom to alter it and the freedom to give it away. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of the Digital Tipp

Transcript -- Linux - Open Source Software

Aug 18th, 2011

Transcript -- When the open source community use the word free they mean freedom; the freedom to use software in any way that you want, the freedom to alter it and the freedom to give it away. Audio courtesy of Christian Einfeldt and crew of th

Linux - Distros, dogs and the UNIX family

Aug 18th, 2011 5m 14s

Linux like the pet dog comes in many breeds, known as distributions or distros. In the same way that all dogs are descended from wolves all distros are descended from Gnu/Linux and the different types are bred for specific purposes.

Transcript -- Linux - Distros, dogs and the UNIX family

Aug 18th, 2011

Transcript -- Linux like the pet dog comes in many breeds, known as distributions or distros. In the same way that all dogs are descended from wolves all distros are descended from Gnu/Linux and the different types are bred for specific purpose

Linux in everyday life - from smart-phones to supercomputers

Aug 18th, 2011 6m 42s

Linux runs on everything from your workaday wireless router to CERN’s most powerful super-computer. Apache – the wide world’s web server of choice – is Linux based, as is your Android Smartphone and your local cash machine.

Transcript -- Linux in everyday life - from smart-phones to supercomputers

Aug 18th, 2011

Transcript -- Linux runs on everything from your workaday wireless router to CERN’s most powerful super-computer. Apache – the wide world’s web server of choice – is Linux based, as is your Android Smartphone and your local cash machine.

Linux and cloud computing

Aug 18th, 2011 6m 15s

The future is now and the buzz word is Cloud. The Amazon and Google Cloud services represent a new dawn in the computer age, taking the strain away from your desk and laptops, virtual machines process your information nebulously. The servers th

Transcript -- Linux and cloud computing

Aug 18th, 2011

Transcript -- The future is now and the buzz word is Cloud. The Amazon and Google Cloud services represent a new dawn in the computer age, taking the strain away from your desk and laptops, virtual machines process your information nebulously.

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