What were the Basic Stuff in Linux Beginning?

Most important fact of Linux I forgot.

It is the ability integrate with the Internet seamlessly with NFS or Network File System resident in the kernel. Both client and server NFS are resident in the kernel.

NFS configuration files are resident in /etc/exports.

 

Linux Init process is streamlined and Gnome runs the integrity check of its file system and one should not abort it. Evry time it boot it prepares a journal that is updated as necessary when additional stuff are added

 

1. Kernel to configure hardware

Kernel (first word came as Kernal) is not your work.

It is supervised by Linus Torvalds

 

2. Window Manager (Puppy Linux) which enlarged to a Desktop

Window mangers were light weight

IceWM an Enlightenment are beautiful and functional and not resource hungry. 

KDE is as bulky as Microsoft Windows.

 

3. Web Browser and Mozilla Firefox was the darling.

 

I am not going to ditch Firefox due to minor hitches which saved me for over 30 years.

 

4. File manager which has a folder for home and downloads.

Folders arranged in alphabetical order.

Desktop

Documents

Downloads

Music

Pictures

Public

Templates

Videos

 

Thunar was the beginning but Nautilus took over.

Now we have a nice nemo from cinnamon.

 

5. What else do you need?

Gparted to prepare the partition the way one likes.

/root partition for the  basic system

/boot partition and now it is Efi (Fat partition) of less than one GB.

/home partition to hold all the file system from Dolphin to Nautilus to Thunar 

/tmp or opt partition to drop all unused files,  which are all deleted at boot time.

/var partition to load all user files (this should be big enough to load everything you add after install. I get this wrong  

Any other partition /usr/local is redundant in a desktop but very useful on a serer setting.

That is the basic of Linux operating system

 

Anything else is bloatware. 

Kdenlive is a typical bloatware of about 770MB when installed.