Jon Martin, What is Linux and what’s it doing in the digital humanities?
In this chapter, the author discusses the ways academic managers can use a Linux server to build and deploy applications and also how academic managers can use many common Linux utilities on academic managers own computer to develop and test websites and other applications. The advantage to this is that compatibility with academic managers application is more likely. Because of this, many software packages common to Digital Humanities assume the presence of Apache in detailed instructions. Debian’s Social Contract binds all of its developers and contributors and helps to ensure that the work on Gnu’s Not Unix and the Linux kernel to produce a free, Unix-like operating system that is comprised of free software, can run on many different types of computers, and is infinitely customizable is given the highest regard. The command line shell is a way to directly input commands for the system to process
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