Linux range of use: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Linux kernel ubiquity.svg|thumb|400px|The [[Linux kernel]] is ubiquitously in use on very different hardware platforms in conjunction with an abundance of software packages to build a tailored [[operating system]]]]

[[Linux kernel]]-based operating systems have found wide adoption and a very far-reaching range of use. All the [[Free_and_openFree and open-source#Advantages_and_benefits_of_free_and_openAdvantages and benefits of free and open-source_softwaresource software|advantages and benefits of free and open-source software]] apply to the Linux kernel itself and also to most of the rest of the system software.

==Linux on the desktop==

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There are three solutions for [[Operating system-level virtualization|OS-level virtualization]]: [[Linux-VServer]], [[LXC]] and [[OpenVZ]], which offer similarities to [[FreeBSD jail]]s and [[Solaris Containers]].

A Linux operating systems runs virtualized on [[Xen]], a micro-kernel-type hypervisor published under the same license as the Linux kernel ([[GNU General Public License#Version_2Version 2|GNU GPL-2.0]]), and with [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]] it is possible to turn the Linux kernel into a [[hypervisor]].

For the managing there are [[libvirt]], [[libguestfs]] and several utilities building upon them, as well as a couple of other programs.

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