LINUX is free software LINUX is a complete Unix system for pc hardware "LINUX is meant to be fun!" (Tinus Torwalds says) LINUX is a product of cooperative software development LINUX (like every complete Unix system) is distributed with a fast-working word processor and a handy data base search engine (vi & grep) LINUX developers and users communicate via Internet and sometimes they meet in rl ( = real life) too sometimes announcing rl meetings via net news