Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system that
assembled under the model of free and open sorce software development and
distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an
operating system kernel first released
on 5 October 1991, by Linux Torvalds. Linux was originally developed as a free
operating system for Intel x86- based personal computers. It has since been
ported to more computer hardware platforms than any other operating system. It
is a leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe
computers and supercomputers more than 90% of today’s 500 fastest
supercomputers run some variant of Linux, including the 10 fastest. Linux is,
in simplest terms, an operating system. It is the software on a computer that
enables applications and the computer operator to access the devices on the
computer to perform desired functions. The operating system relays instructions
from an application to, for instance, the computer’s processor. The processor
performs the instructed task, then sends the results back to the application
via the operating system.
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