{"id":19066,"date":"2017-03-02T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T10:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=19066"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:41:31","slug":"what-are-the-features-of-linux-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/what-are-the-features-of-linux-operating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Features Of Linux Operating System?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Features Of Linux Operating System<\/h1>\n

In this post, let’s learn some of the features of the Linux operating system. Linux is virtually found and used everywhere. Developers run the code on Linux boxes. Most of the production servers run on Linux machines. Testers run the tests and the DevOps team deploys the application on Linux machines\/VMs etc. As we can see Linux supports many use cases.<\/p>\n

Features Of Linux OS<\/h2>\n

Some of the features are as follows:<\/p>\n

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Free<\/h2>\n

First things first, Linux\/Unix is a free or open-source operating system. It’s important to note the meaning of free as in “freedom”.<\/p>\n

Portable<\/h2>\n

Linux is portable to many different hardware platforms. Linux operating system is popular because it supports many hardware platforms and devices.<\/p>\n

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Multiuser<\/h2>\n

Multiple users can use the Linux machine at the same time. Linux operating system allows several users to use the hardware and software concurrently.<\/p>\n

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Secure<\/h2>\n

Linux kernel is more secure and supports many security features. User accounts, file permissions ACLs, Encryption, Secure Shell, etc.<\/p>\n

Multitasking<\/h2>\n

Linux supports multitasking. Linux users can do several tasks at the same time. The users can even run tasks in the background as well.<\/p>\n

Linux Distributions<\/h2>\n

Linux support multiple flavors or distributions. Some of the major or popular distributions are Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Kali Linux<\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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