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the free operating system that runs the internet while your laptop still shows a penguin at a party.

means an open-source operating system kernel that anyone can use, modify, and redistribute, powering everything from phones to supercomputers.

from 1991, helsinki: 21-year-old student linus torvalds posted to a newsgroup that he was building a free operating system kernel just for fun, not big and professional like gnu. it got bigger than anyone's plans, his included.

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