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Linux (/ ˈ l ɪ n ʊ k s /, LIN-uuks) [15] is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, [16] an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
In 1965, Western Electric introduced the first widely used telephone switch that implemented computer control in the switching fabric. Throughout the 1960s, [11] [12] Paul Baran and Donald Davies independently invented the concept of packet switching for data communication between computers over a network.