What is Linux?
Linux is an Open-Source Operating System (OS). It was first created by Finnish grad student Linus Torvalds in 1991. He started it as a project for school, modeled after Minix, which was a UNIX-based OS. Linus called it Linux, because his work was modeled after UNIX, and using his name. Linux has no direct relation to UNIX like other OSs such as Solaris (Sun Microsystems), SunOS (old Sun Microsystems), Irix (SGI), AIX (IBM), UNIXware (SCO), Tru64(Compaq), HP-UX(Hewlett Packard), BSD, and many others. Linux is written from the ground up and is very well written. It’s had a lot of help with it’s development, and has millions of programmers each day building it. Why so many, you ask?It’s Open-Source. By 1993, the Linux kernel had reached 1.0
Even Before Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel, Richard Stallman had began the GNU project. GNU is a recursive acronym meaning GNU’s not UNIX. What the GNU project did was write open-source versions of the tools found in the orignal versions of UNIX. Tools like ls, cd, tar, to applications like the Vi and Emacs text editors. The GNU project would have had their own OS out but, they hadn’t achieved a working kernel before Linus and Linux. In some circles, people refer to Linux as GNU/Linux. Technically this is true, but most just say Linux for short. I have much respect to everyone who has/does contributes to the GNU project, but I’m just saying “Linux” is easier to say.
Linux is very famous for it’s scalability. What am I talking about?
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