Kernel version 1.3.1
Linux operating system kernel is the core of its main functions, including process scheduling, memory management, configuration management, virtual file system that provides inter-process communication network interface and support.
Linux kernel version is worth Linus led the development team developed a system kernel version number. Linux kernel version is also escalating.
Linux kernel version name is a certain rule, the format version number is "major version. Minor version number. Revision number." The major version number and minor version number change marks an important function, but also described together core family, revision number indicates minor functionality changes.
Release 1.3.2
Linux distribution refers to the "Linux operating system", which may be caused by an organization, company or individual offering, Linux as a major Linux distributions (often referred to as "distro") part of the use, generally speaking, a Linux distributions include the Linux kernel, the entire set of software installation to install the tool on a computer, a variety of GNU software, a number of other free software, in some specific Linux distributions are also some proprietary software. Release for many different purposes and production, including support for different computer architecture, localized to a specific region or language, real-time applications, and embedded systems. As of 2011, over three hundred distributions are actively developed, it releases the most commonly used about twelve.
A typical Linux distribution includes: Linux kernel, some of the GNU libraries and tools, command-line shell, X Window System graphical interface and the corresponding desktop environments such as KDE or GNOME, and contains thousands of packages from office, compilers, text editor application to scientific tools.
Mainstream Linux distributions: Ubuntu, DebianGNU / Linux, Fedora, Gentoo, MandrivaLinux, PCLinuxOS, SlackwareLinux, openSUSE, ArchLinux, Puppylinux, Mint, CentOS, Red Hat and so on.
Mainstream version 1.3.3
Ubuntu : Is a Linux-based desktop operating system, its name comes from the Southern African Zulu or Hausa of "ubuntu" word (translated as I helped care or Ubuntu), meaning "human nature" "I exist because we exist", it is a traditional African values, similar to the Chinese community, "benevolence". Ubuntu distributions based on Debian and GNOME desktop environments, and different Debian is that it will be released every six months a new version. Ubuntu aims to provide a new operating system, while relatively stable mainly constructed by the free software made for the average user. Ubuntu has a huge community of power users can easily get help from the community.