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What Linux is all about?

A version of Unix that has gained popularity because of its stability as an operating system for hosting web servers. Linux is open source software and is freely available over the Internet. Linux is an open source operating system within the Unix family. Because of its robustness and availability, Linux has won popularity in the open source community and among commercial application developers.This flexibility has enabled Linux to run on everything from handheld and embedded systems to clusters of hundreds of servers. Learn More...

What is PHP?

PHP (recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Learn More...

What is Perl?

Perl is an interpreted programming language known for its power and flexibility. It combines the familiar syntax of C, C++, sed, awk, grep, sh, and csh into a tool that that is more powerful than the separate pieces used together. These pages will teach basic data structures, flow control, and string manipulation in the context of writing a common CGI program for a Web server. Learn More...

What is MySQL?

MySQL is the world's most popular open source relational database management system (RDBMS). MySQL is based around the Structured Query Language (SQL), and is best for managing the content of the database as opposed to transactions. Learn More...

What is Java?

Java is just a small, simple, safe, object-oriented, interpreted or dynamically optimized, byte-coded, architecture-neutral, garbage-collected, multithreaded programming language with a strongly typed exception-handling mechanism for writing distributed, dynamically extensible programs. Learn More...