November 2007
Beginner
420 pages
10h 53m
English
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Foreword
Apart from its applicability for everyday work, GNU/Linux is a great way to learn about operating systems. The Free Software license allows you to take the software apart, see inside, and understand how it works. You can also change the software to fit your needs. It can make you feel like a child happily taking a colorful and complex toy apart into thousands of little gears and switches, just to see how it functions, disregarding the fact that it may be very difficult to ever reassemble that toy again. The difference with GNU/Linux, of course, is that you can work on a copy of the software source code and won’t break the original. And sometimes, while reassembling, you can build something entirely different and colorful without even planning to.
The Past
When, in 1999, bootable business card–sized Linux “Rescue CDs” appeared as giveaways at computer expos, I was extremely curious about how they worked. And since they were free software, I was able to look inside and try to figure out how the software worked. After I successfully made a bootable CD, I decided to make a “personal rescue CD.” That way, it would be possible to use the software that I needed from a CD, rather than carry around an expensive and fragile laptop. Computers are available everywhere anyway, so why not just have the software in your pocket instead? The idea was to put in the CD and start working right away, without having to worry about installation or configuration of any kind.
But hardware is evil. ...
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