What's Linux now ? (1)

Often also called GNU/Linux Developed by Linus Torvalds over 10 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), has SMP support