THE DEVICES

OLPC

A failure, but a big deal anyway

PDAs (but this AND a phone?)



MP3 Players


Ipod

Blackberry

AKA THE LAST CELL PHONE MAKER EVER ☺




Nokia N900



iPhone

Darwin/POSIX Compliant (but basically closed)

Android

Linux Kernel , Weird OS








For Comparison - Windows 7?

Win 10?

Os X?


Choices Choices Choices

Linux has MANY Different
Window Managers
used in even more different
Desktop Environments
which probably looks a lot like "different operating systems"


old KDE


Current KDE

Elementary

Raspberry Pi OS


Ubuntu

Fancy old Compiz Fanciness

OpenElec/Kodi

Kali Linux

Awesome






OKAY, what is LINUX exactly. An OS?

Yes, but — what is an OS?


Lots of different kinds of software at
different levels.


(Apple/Windows just squishes them all together)


A rough car analogy

Linux is a Kernel

A rough car analogy

GNU is..uh this other stuff i'm not a car guy

A rough car analogy

Distros are like Models/Makes

A rough car analogy

Window Managers or Desktop Environments are like the dash