Summary
Linux is an operating system—software that runs your computer. When you work on your computer, the interface provides the communication between you and the Linux kernel, the part of Linux where the low-level work takes place. The kernel communicates directly with the hardware to save files on the hard disk, send data streams to the printer, send information out onto the network, and other basic tasks. Your instructions are accepted by the interface, processed, and passed into the kernel. Linux provides two types of interface that you can use to send instructions: a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command-line interface (CLI).
The GUI provides graphical images that can be selected with the mouse. One popular GUI is a desktop, made ...
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