PC Magazine's Linux Solutions

Author: Joe Merlino
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Language: English
Number of Pages: 476
PDF: 6 MB
ISBN-10: 0-471-77769-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-77769-4


Linux was first released to the public in 1994. It was originally created by a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds. He was looking for something he could run on his PC that would duplicate the functionality of his school’s Unix mainframe. Finding nothing that met his needs, he decided to build it himself. Deciding that he needed help, he released it on the Internet, declaring that anybody who wanted a copy could have one, so long as they made any changes or improvements in it available to the public.
Apparently, there were quite a few people who were also looking for the same thing, because an army of developers took up the task, and within only a couple of years, Linux was a full-featured system.

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