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[[Image:37 tux linux penguin.png|thumb|Tux, the Linux mascot.]]
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'''[[Wikipedia:Linux|Linux]]''' is a generic term referring to [[Wikipedia:Unix-like|Unix-like]] computer operating systems
using
the [[Wikipedia:Linux kernel|Linux kernel]].
Their
development
is one
of the most prominent
examples
of [[Wikipedia:Free
and Open Source Software
|free
and open source
software]] collaboration;
typically all
the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the [[Wikipedia:GPL|GNU GPL]] and other free licenses.
The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by [[Wikipedia:Linus Torvalds|Linus Torvalds]].
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'''[[Wikipedia:Linux|Linux]]''' is a generic term referring to [[Wikipedia:Unix-like|Unix-like]] computer operating systems
based on
the [[Wikipedia:Linux kernel|Linux kernel]]
and the [[Wikipedia:GNU|GNU]] userland
.
Distributions of the GNU/Linux Operating System (commonly termed "Linux" outside of the FOSS) are called "distros", and are are mostly distinguished by their package management, release cycles, and philosophies.
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The Free Software Movement was founded in 1983 by [[Wikipedia:Richard Stallman|Richard Stallman]] to advocate software freedom.[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html] In 1985 Stallman announced the establishment of the GNU Project, with the purpose of creating a completely free Unix-like Operating System, which would be called GNU. Contributors to the Project succeeded in creating an almost complete GNU system, but progress on its microkernel, the HURD, stalled.
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[[Wikipedia:Linus Torvalds|Linus Torvalds]] wrote an operating system kernel for his personal usage in 1991, a monolithic kernel based on Minix (which at the time was only free for educational usage). Torvalds released his kernel under under GNU's GPL license, and the GNU Project adopted it in absence of the HURD in 1992. Torvalds' kernel became known as Linux. The combination of GNU and the Linux kernel form the GNU/Linux Operating System.
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The
development of
GNU/Linux is the earliest and
the most prominent
example
of [[Wikipedia:Free
software
|free software]] collaboration;
generally
the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the [[Wikipedia:GPL|GNU GPL]] and other free licenses.
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== References to Linux ==
== References to Linux ==