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Linux was first released by its inventor Linus Torvalds in 1991. There are
versions of Linus for almost every available type of computer hardware
from desktop machines to IBM mainframes. The inner workings of
Linux are open and available for anyone to examine and change
as long as they make their changes available to the public.
Various aspects of Linux and adaption of
Linux for a huge variety of purposes.
from servers to TV-recording
boxes.
A free
version of the Unix operating system,
primarily composed of tools developed over a 15-year period
by Richard Stallman and Project GNU. However, the final spectacular
push was provided by Linus Torvalds who wrote a
kernel (complete in 1994), organized a
bunch of programmers Internet-wide,
and managed
releases.