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The speaker discusses the origins of Linux and its association with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. They mention the different versions of Linux, particularly Puppy Linux, which is known for running everything in RAM and being designed for desktop use. They also mention EasyOS, a container-based Linux system developed by Barry Cowler. The speaker prefers Puppy Linux but mentions trying Ubuntu for new users and Manjaro as a transition away from Apple's closed system. They emphasize the decentralized approach of Linux and briefly mention Debian as another system they are currently using. Hi everyone, I don't always talk very much about Linux or Linux, as some people insist on, because it's an operating system and it's named after Linus Torvald, who's I think Swedish or Norwegian or something like that, and it was also started maybe a bit earlier by another guy, Richard Stallman, who was a Unix guy who always insisted that software should be free and shouldn't be commercialised and he dedicated, he was known as Saint Ignatius and he wandered the world trying to, well wandered the world, he went to various conferences and tried to promote the idea of software being freely available for everyone. So he is a kind of secular saint, I mean he was a bit comedic, he was a funny man, genius in many ways, he was using a very early form of AI programming with his Emacs system, which used Lisp, which was a data processing language, a very early one, and the other early one was Prolog. Anyway, let's get back to Linux, I call it Linux, I find it easier to say that and most people call it Linux rather than Linux. But just as an aside note, Linus Torvald wanted to call it Git, that was his original name for it, so instead of calling it Linux he was going to call it Git, which I find quite funny. Anyway, I'm familiar with mostly, I've done lots of what is known as distro hopping, because there's various versions of the Linux operating system, they use different kernels, which is the interior part, the most important part of the operating system. So I've used various different versions, but the one that I'm most familiar with and spent most time with and for me was most educational was Puppy Linux. Puppy Linux is still around, and if you're using a desktop machine, it works on older machines, it's very different, it runs everything in the RAM, we've all got loads of RAM now, so you can run from RAM, it also runs as root, so it is literally designed for a desktop. And Barry Cowler, who developed it in Australia, because he's a, somebody's always reinventing the wheel, has got a new container based Linux based operating system, which he calls EasyOS, I don't have much to do with that, maybe I will in the future, because again, it's too, he's sort of thrown out the whole book, he's gone for security and containers, which is a good thing, the operating system is developed for the SD cards and SD micro cards, or hard drives, internal hard drives on systems, but it's not for me, I preferred Puppy Linux, and I sort of retired from using that, and working very hard for it, that's where I got my logo from, so I'm familiar with that the most, but after two years, after Barry Cowler officially retired from Puppy Linux, he's still there on the go to his website and follow it, but you won't get much communication from him unless you are developing for it, and writing software. He's a very clever guy, the whole of the Puppy Linux was written, well written in, it uses Bash script to take bits of Linux command line programs, puts them all together into very, very compact, very fast, you know, programs that run from the terminal and from the graphic user interface. Anyway, let's not talk about that, I'm still trying to talk about the other systems that I've used since then, and the three that I want to mention is Ubuntu, which is very good for, just for new users who come from Windows, it installs on loads of different things, it's based on Debian, and I'd highly recommend that for those who are so interested. It didn't work for me on my system, I'm sort of trying to move towards free and open source software, so I'm more interested in Manjaro, which I use, has a, on a laptop, that's very good, I'm trying to wean myself off Apple's closed system, which is just the ultimate commercial dead-end, if you like, but still useful, they've got good products, you can, you know, you have to use what works for you, some people use Chromebooks, I was never interested in Chromebooks, I'm not interested in Google and Gmail and all that sort of commercial centralised nonsense, the decentralised approach which Linux does so well is the way to go. So the other system is, which is, for me is a sort of halfway house to the open source systems is Debian, which I'm recording this from now. Alright, that's all from me for today, so a bit of a departure into Linux. Bye now.