Linux a computer operating system for the people
The popular free Linux computer operating system being co-opted by corporate technology titans was born of a Finnish university student and a group devoted to no-cost software.
The software, and its most widely known distributor Red Hat, has open source coding allowing anyone with the skill to modify it at will.
Northern California business software behemoth Oracle announced last week that it was providing support for Linux systems at a deep discount in an unabashed bid to lure customers from Red Hat.
Microsoft and Novell announced an alliance Thursday to make world-dominating Microsoft software compatible with that of Novell, a seller of Linux-based systems.
The seeds for the Linux operating system were planted in 1983 with the founding of the GNU Project by Richard Stallman, whose stated aim was to build a Unix-like operating system completely from free software.
The name GNU, pronounced similarly to the English word “canoe,” was a playful acronym of “GNU’s Not Unix.”
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