What is Linux? Why is it better to choose Linux than Windows®? Why choose Mandriva over other Linux products? What’s new in Mandriva Linux 2007? Mandriva Linux 2007 product range Mandriva Linux: Web 2.0 ready! Mandriva Linux Services Mandriva Linux 2007 Services Glossary In 1983, Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project, with the goal of developing a complete Unix-like operating system composed entirely of free software. By the beginning of the 1990s, GNU had produced or collected most of the necessary components of this system except for the core component, the kernel. In 1991, the Linux kernel was created as a hobby by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds.

A typical general-purpose distribution includes: . the Linux kernel, . some GNU libraries and tools, . command-line shells, . the graphical X Window ® system, . and an accompanying desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME, . several applications for office, multimedia, development or server needs.

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