As I've promised it last week, we are going to take a sneak peek into the history of the second most common operating system, Linux. Most of you encounter with it at libraries and other places where one can publicly access a computer. This is because, as you may know it, Linux is a "free" operating system (I put that in brackets as some distributions of it are not free). And this fact about Linux usually concludes people's knowledge about the system, leaving its history mysterious.

Most people hate this system, as it is "too complicated", "slow", "breaks down way too often", and so on. Sadly, these facts are almost never true for Linux but for the computers they are installed on. As libraries and such places usually have old, slow PCs, and hundreds of people are using them every day for various stuff, it is no wonder that these systems are often faulty.

So, how did Linux began its history, and what is it capable of? See below.

Okay, this may seem as a bit too basic, but hey - there is always new stuff out there to learn.

Today's post will deal with the Operating Systems (OS) of the PC. This is the basic software that turns your PC into an actually useful pile of metal. There are many operating systems out there, but let's just stick to the most common ones:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac OS

As I have mentioned it in one of my earliest blogposts, we can cross out Mac OS off the list, as it is mostly exclusive to Apple computers. You can set up Mac OS on a PC and Windows on a Mac, but who in the right mind would do that? Anyways, these operating systems all have distributions, which means the different versions of these OS-es. Let's go through the brief history of these systems!