Linux basics · part 1 of 8 · What Linux is, where it runs, and why it matters

Is Linux running in your hand right now?

A phone in a hand turns see-through to show Linux at its core. Then the same glow lights a router, a TV, a car, server racks, all 500 of the fastest supercomputers and a helicopter on Mars. Turn Where Linux runs from your phone out to Mars and down to the kernel at the heart, each step with its source.

What you turn: Where Linux runs

The reel

The full lesson · 8:57

The long version

The same idea, slower: more examples, and pauses to try each step yourself.