This book is for all programmers, whether you are a novice or an experienced pro. The beginner will find its carefully paced exercises especially helpful. Of course those who have already familiar with programming are likely to derive more benefits from this article. After reading this book you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in C, C++, Java and Python from where you can take yourself to next levels. The command-line interface is one of the nearly all well built trademarks of Linux. There exists an ocean of Linux commands, permitting you to do nearly everything you can be under the impression of doing on your Linux operating system. Although, this to the end of time creates a problem: by all of so copious commands accessible to manage, you don't comprehend where and at which point to fly learning them, especially when you are learner. If you are facing this problem, and are peering for a painless method to begin your command line journey in Linux, you've come to the right place, as in this book, we will launch you to a hold of well liked and helpful Linux commands.
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What is Linux and why is it so popular?
Whether you know it or not you are already using Linux (the best-known and most-used open source operating system) every day. From supercomputers to smartphones, the Linux operating system is everywhere. As an operating system, Linux is a family of open source Unix-like software based on the Linux kernel - that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer's hardware. With regard to careers, it is becoming increasingly valuable to have Linux skills rather than just knowing how to use Windows. In general, Linux is harder to manage than Windows, but offers more flexibility and configuration options.
Every desktop computer uses an operating system. The most popular operating systems in use today are: Windows, Mac OS, and LINUX. Linux is the best-known notoriously reliable and highly secure open source portable operating system -- very much like UNIX -- that has become very popular over the last several years -- created as a task done for pleasure by Linus Torvalds - - computer science student at the University of Helsinki in Finland -- in the early 1990s and later developed by more than a thousand people around the world.
Linux is fast, free and easy to use, that sits underneath all the other software on a computer − runs your computer -- handling all interactions between you and the hardware i.e., whether you're typing a letter, calculating a money budget, or managing your food recipes on your computer, the Linux operating system (similar to other Operating Systems, such as Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac OS X) provides the essential air that your computer breathes.
Linux is the most important technology advancement of the twenty-first century and Licensed under the General Public License (GPL) that Linux uses ensures that the software will always be open to anyone and whose source code is open and available for any user to check, which makes it easier to find and repair vulnerabilities and it power the laptops, development machines and servers at Google, Facebook, Twitter, NASA, and New York Stock Exchange, just to name a few. Linux has many more features to amaze its users such as: Live CD/USB, Graphical user interface (X Window System) etc.
