ABSTRACT
A real threat to Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop operating system workspace could come from the creation by a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, in the form of a freely available operating system — Linux. Linux was originally developed by Linus and then enhanced, debugged, and completely rewritten by thousands of programmers around the world, and today it poses a credible threat to the domination of Microsoft. While Linux is still a few years away from appearing on every desktop around the world, its use as a server operating system has shown a remarkable increase over the past year. This chapter presents a look at the world of Linux.
