An operating system is a program that acts an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. The purpose of an operating system is to provide an environment in which a user can execute programs. The main purpose of an operating is to make the computer system convenient to use and user can the computer hardware in an efficient manner. An operating system is similar to a government. The components of a …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 825 total…will boot and run (with full graphical user interface) in less than 4 megabytes of ram, and 8 megs of ram is plenty for web surfing with Netscape. Linux is available under the GNU public license, which states that anyone is allowed to copy, distribute, and modify it. It?s impossible to ?pirate? a GNU program. Anyone and everyone is explicitly allowed to make and use as many copies as they need, without ever having to buy.