Linux was originally developed by Linus Torvalds originally was a kernel or core of the operating system. Today, Linux is a complete operating system. Linux CD now contains the operating system plus general office applications, multimedia, and Internet. The original MS Windows CD only contains an operating system, not including MS Office, Photoshop image processing, Exchange email server, etc., unless the CD pirated copy.
Linux licensing terms are often used is non-proprietary, open source, free software and GPL (GNU General Public License) which means almost the same: you are free to use, learn and develop (as available source code) and distribute, to anything, including for nuclear installations. Windows, Macintosh and proprietary programs are closed source, non free software and non-GPL.dan sure there are some differences again are:
Linux licensing terms are often used is non-proprietary, open source, free software and GPL (GNU General Public License) which means almost the same: you are free to use, learn and develop (as available source code) and distribute, to anything, including for nuclear installations. Windows, Macintosh and proprietary programs are closed source, non free software and non-GPL.dan sure there are some differences again are: