Linux is the name given to the type of computer operating system Unix. Linux is one example of the development of free software and open source principal. Like the free software and other open source in general, Linux source code can be modified, used and redistributed freely by anyone.
The name “Linux” comes from the name of the kernel (Linux kernel), which was made in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The system, equipment and system libraries generally come from the GNU operating system, which was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. The GNU contribution is the basis of the emergence of the alternative name GNU / Linux.

Linux has long been known for its use in servers, and backed by companies such as Dell’s leading computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, Oracle Corporation, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems. Linux is used as the operating system in various types of computer hardware, including desktop computers, supercomputers, and Embedded systems such as electronic book readers, video game systems (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox), mobile phones and routers. Analysts believe the success of information technology Linux because Linux does not depend on the vendor (vendor independence), low operating costs, and higher compatibility than no free versions of UNIX, as well as safety factor and high stability compared to other operating systems like Microsoft Windows. These characteristics also be evidence of the benefits of the development model of open source software (opensource software).
Linux operating system known as Linux distributions (Linux distribution) or a general Linux distribution already includes device-support software such as web servers, programming languages, databases, desktop display (desktop environment) (such as Gnome and KDE), and office application packages (office suite) as OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Abiword, and Gnumeric.

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and is the creator Linus Torvalds Linux kernel
Unix operating system developed and implemented in the 1960s and was first released in 1970. Availability and compatibility factors which caused high can be used, copied and modified extensively by academic institutions and the businessman.

The GNU project which started in 1984 aims to create an operating system compatible with Unix and totally complete and consists of free software. [In 1985, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation and developed the GNU General Public License (GNU General Public License or GNU GPL). Most programs required by an operating system (such as libraries, compilers, text editors, a Unix shell and the window system) was completed in the early 1990s, though elements of such a low level device drivers, and kernel jurik remained unfinished at the time . Linus Torvalds once said that if the GNU kernel was available at that time (1991), he will not decide to write his own version.

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