Welcome to the first lesson on Mikrotik and its RouterOs operating system.

Mikrotik is a Latvian company become famous in the world of computing for its network devices.

Its notoriety arises from the fact that all its products use an operating system for network management called RouterOs.

RouterOs owes its reputation to being based on the well-known Linux kernel and, as such, inherits from it all the  opensource features already available in it.

Therefore if you want to run a small, medium or enormously complex network, Linux is often the best solution.

So why use RouterOs instead of Linux ? Because there's just no simple to configure the many features of Linux and get it right.