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The Linux Operating System
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Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he ....
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...., flexible, efficient, stable, secure, reliable, legal, easy to install, low maintenance, thoroughly tested, and currently running somewhere around half the internet.
Linux can run on much more modest hardware than most other modern operating systems require. An old 486 with 16 megabytes of ram and 500 megs of hard drive space has plenty of capacity to host an internet, including duties as firewall and print/SMTP/POP server for dozens of other computers. Linux will boot and run (with full graph.... |
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