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Before I start on this subject there are a few disclaimers I need to say before I begin. In no way shape or form am I encouraging you to go out and download Tor or go on the deep/dark web. Tor by itself is not illegal but the browser will lead you to illegal activity if you go out looking for those websites. Stay away you do not know what you are doing. Linux is completely safe and will not harm your computer. You are actually receiving a superior operating system if you decide to try or start using Linux. There is something very wrong with the Internet. Everything you say, everything you do is being tracked. I believe like many others this is a complete violation of your privacy. Microsoft is tracking everything you do on your computer and …show more content…

That means that the source code for the operating system is made freely available and can be redistributed and modified. Different examples of open source software include Ubuntu, Firefox, Python and Thunderbird. A majority of software available on Linux is open source. Even major companies use use open source software so they can base their software on. For example Apple’s OS X and Android were created by using open source software. If the software is open source this allows other developers/companies to improve the source code and make it their own. As a result it leads to a very large and open …show more content…

Linux was created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. It was then publicly released by 1992, and immediately gained traction through web hosting, networking, and database serving. Over the years tens of thousands of developers gradually improved Linux and made the kernel what is is now. It is inspiring how Linux was created. The creators for different Linux distributions make no money through the operating system. For example Linux Mint is made possible completely through donations. This report is going to be focusing on the desktop environment of Linux. A distribution of Linux is a operating system based on the Linux kernel. There are hundreds of different distributions of Linux. Examples of Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, and

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