What is Linux?-
Linux is a free operating system that was created by Linus Torvalds when he was a student at the University of Helsinki in 1991. Torvalds started Linux by writing a kernel (the heart of the operating system) partly from scratch and partly by using publicly available software. Torvalds then released the system to his friends and to a community of “hackers” on the internet and asked them to work with it, fix it, and enhanced it. It took off. Today, there are thousands of software developers around the world contributing software to the open source community that feeds the Linux initiative. Because the source code for the software is freely available, any one can work on it, change it, or enhanced it. Developers are encouraged to pass their fixes and improvements back in to the community so that the Linux can continue to grow and improve...
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