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From UNIX to Linux: The History That Explains Everything

Where Linux comes from, why it looks like UNIX, and why there are several families of distributions.

  • All levels
  • 7 lessons
  • 3 h 50 min
  • Versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

A MasterLinux course · Original text

What you will learn

  • Place UNIX, BSD, GNU and Linux on a timeline
  • Understand what a distribution is
  • Tell the Red Hat and Debian families apart
  • Know the history of CentOS, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux
  • Understand free software licences (GPL, BSD, MIT)
  • Choose your path: Linux careers and certifications

Course content

7 lessons · 3 h 50 min
Section 1 — History7 lessons · 3 h 50 min
  1. From Multics to UNIX (1964-1973) 30 min
  2. The UNIX family — BSD, System V and the POSIX standard 30 min
  3. GNU and free software 30 min
  4. 1991 — Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel 35 min
  5. Linux distributions — Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu and the others 35 min
  6. The Red Hat saga — RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Rocky and AlmaLinux 40 min
  7. Linux today and your career 30 min

Requirements

  • None

Who is this course for?

  • Anyone discovering Linux