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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 January 2025. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...
It chronicles the history of Unix and how it led to the creation of Linux. The book provides samples of code written in C , and learning exercises at the end of chapters. The author is a former writer for the Linux Weekly News [ 1 ] and the current maintainer for the Linux man pages project.
While employed on the campus of Swansea University, Cox installed a very early version of Linux on one of the machines belonging to the university computer society. [8] This was one of the first Linux installations on a busy network and revealed many bugs in the networking code. Cox fixed many of these bugs and went on to rewrite much of the ...
Linus Torvalds in 2002. In 1991, while studying computer science at University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds began a project that later became the Linux kernel.He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor.
The Linux "man page" [108] [109] is intended to be the authoritative explanatory technical document for the understanding of how bash operates. It is usually available by running man bash . The GNU manual is sometimes considered more user-friendly for reading.
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Linux portal This category is for all software which runs natively on Linux kernel -based operating systems. This means any software which will run on Linux without the use of emulation software or a compatibility layer.
Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ ˈ l iː n ə s ˈ t ɔːr v ɔː l d z / ⓘ LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, [3] Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.