Linux Operating System

Linux is a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds [1]. It is an operating system which is powerful, free and inexpensive to own based on UNIX [1]. It is a POSIX-compliant with versions available to install in cell phones, supercomputers and most computing systems [1]. Linux is an open source program as its source code is available to the general public for use and the right to modify from its original design without any charges [1]. New code will be added to the next version made available with Linux if it is accepted as a universal improvement [1]. The code will continue to exist and developed by the user even if the company fails [1]. Moreover, updates for Linux are available every six months [1]. Nowadays, Linux is in constant development by those contributors most of whom have never met around the world [1].

Linux Torvalds, the founder of Linux, was born on 28th of December, 1969 [2]. He was a graduate student of computer science at the University of Helsinki in Finland [2]. The story took place in 1988’s, Linux had enrolled at the University of Helsinki [2]. He had bought a PC, but wanted to create an operating system which could greatly enhance the limited capabilities of the Intel 80386 microprocessor [2]. He started with MINIX, a Unix-inspired operating system developed by Professor Tanenbaum [2]. However, he was not impressed with the system in general, especially its inability to do terminal emulation which is needed by Linus to connect to the university’s computers [2]. When he was a graduate student, he started to develop the terminal emulation program [2]. Besides that, he was thinking to have the program to be able to do other things with it like saving and transferring files [2]. He announced his achievement on the inte...

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