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Productivity is a term which involves one's personal interest apart from the tools/services which an Operating System can offer. Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Open source software has a lot of options for the business world, alongside the home user bandwagon. Apart from the other generic features, Open Source softwares at times have a greater degree of customization as compared to their proprietary counterparts.
There is a lot of information present in bits and nibbles over the web, what's needed for now is an approach, a paradigm to get a neat interface and logical relationship to the vast and rich mine of free information.
More than an operating system Linux is a large community and strong relationship between its members. A relationship of sharing knowledge and reusing it, unlike reinventing the wheel!
Remember, more than actually being difficult, Linux has been taught to be so. We would like to adhere to a new statement saying, Linux is different and not necessarily difficult.
Generally, a source code comes as a bundle which is a compressed file having an extension -- <strong>.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz</strong> <em>et al</em>. They are often known as <strong>tar balls</strong>.
Installing software on Linux is not only easier than most of us think, but it also has some special features which help software's to be updated automatically!
A Linux system, just like any *NIX based system doesn't differentiate between a file and a directory, since a directory is just another file which contains names of other files. Applications, programs, documents, services, images and just about everything else on a Linux operating system is a file!
