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Often also
called
GNU/Linux
Developed by
Linus Torvalds over 9 years ago while he was at Helsinki
University, now there are several hundred (thousand ?)
contributors to the OS
free POSIX
compliant UNIX like OS (a blend of System V and BSD)
multi-user
(protected memory), multi-tasking
highly
efficient, even on older harder (runs well on 386 with 8
megs to super computer class clusters) SMP support
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