WHAT IS LINUX? People often consider Linux as a complete operating system, but technically it is an operating system kernel, which is the part originally developed by Linus Torvalds. WHAT IS GNU/LINUX? Linux is a kernel which makes system hardware usable by providing an interface to the operating system, but only cosidering linux is of no use. We need an operating system with bunch of applications which would use the hardware resources by the help of kernel to get our jobs done. Richard Stallman's free software foundation had created many softwares but what they were missing was the kernel, which Torvald had developed. So they merged to get a complete operational OS, which is known as GNU/Linux today. GNU/Linux is licenced under GNU General Public License(GPL) which allows distribution and sale of possibly modified and unmodified versions of Linux but requires that all those copies be released under the same license and be accompanied by the complete correspoding source co...
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