If I were to take a wild guess, I would say that most of the people reading this post are using Microsoft Windows. Some of you might be using Apples OS X to run your computer. These are all called operating systems.

You may have heard of Linux but don’t really know what it is. Basically Linux is a FREE open source operating system. The overwhelming majority of web servers actually run Linux based systems because is it credited with being much faster and more secure than windows.

Linux has always had the reputation for being for techie geeks only, but recently Linux distributions have been coming out with the aim of making Linux more user-friendly to use for those raised on Windows and Apple computers. The most popular of these distributions is Ubuntu. Continue reading »