What is Linux?
Simply put, Linux is a computer operating system like the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. The difference is that Linux is open source; anyone can view, modify, and redistribute the underlying code. Further, while OS X is designed to run only on Apple hardware, and while Windows runs primarily on x86 processors from Intel and AMD, there are many distributions or flavors of Linux, compiled to run on a wide array of hardware, everything from high-end corporate servers and mainframes, to home PC’s, to cell phones.
Linux began …

It wasn’t too long ago that social networks didn’t exist. You actually had to speak to one another, in person. The quickest, cheapest (and well, best) way of keeping in touch with people who had moved away was via the old and trusted method of email. No longer is this the case. People don’t want to speak to one person anymore; they want the whole world to know that they’re staying in and having Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner tonight.
Tonight’s dinner aside, this is something which needs to be paid …