The open-source favorite has scored record adoption among desktop users, following a dip in Windows popularity since December ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

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For everyone else, Linux is a free open-source operating system, which means the code is available for anyone to explore. Technically speaking, the term “Linux” refers to just the kernel, or ...

In an interview with Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, VentureBeat got a bird’s-eye view of the future of the open-source operating system for 2014.

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It offered Linux (the kernel), GNU (the operating system) and X Window System. It was created by Canadian developer Peter MacDonald in 1992. 1992: Linux goes Live!

Yet when BSD found its legal footing, Linux was already on its way, embraced by the types of minds that would help turn it into the operating system that would eventually run most of the world.