Second post

Ok so I went out for a bit to chat with some fellows and now am back, ready for the second post. I added some useful and interesting pages about Linux, GNU, open source and free software, some forums, wiki...
I won't write about history of Linux kernel, GNU project, Debian and so on. You can read about that here:
www.kernel.org/linux.html
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
http://www.debian.org/intro/about
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

It is important to know that Linux is actually "just" the kernel. One linux distribution is not just Linux, but also GNU, X, and many other components. That is why some distributions (like Debian) are called GNU/Linux.

There are many (hundreds of) distributions which are using Linux kernel. However, many of them are just derivatives of some other distribution. The most derivated (and one of the oldest) distributions are Debian (just some of popular deriatives: CrunchBang, LMDE, SolusOS, Knoppinx), Slackware (Zenwalk, Slax, ....), RedHat (Fedora). Derivatives can also have it's derivatives. Just for the example, Knoppix has Damn Small Linux (and others), Fedora has EduLinux, Moblin, and the list goes on and on and on...

I will write more about Linux distributions in other post(s).