Linux, Open Source and the Organisation

Components of a typical distribution

Utilities
- command shells
- scripting languages
- editors
- daemons for system tasks like printing, automating maintenance
Mostly from Free Software Foundation and University of California Berkeley
Server Daemons
- BIND, the name server - originally from Berkeley, now maintained by the Internet Software Consortium
- Sendmail, the most common mail server - originally from Berkeley, now maintained by ua community project
- Apache, the Web server - community project
- Samba, the Windows compatible file server - originally from Australian National University, now a community project
- NFS, the UNIX compatible file server - from Sun
Many others
The windowing system
- X Windows - from the X consortium (industry collaboration)
- XFree86 - community project
Desktop Interface
- KDE - community project
- GNOME - community project
Installation tool