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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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what do you think of mit?? (lemmy.today)

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massachusetts institue of technology. richard stallman is from there. most linux utilities were developed there and a lot of open source projects were and are made there!!! is it the best university for linux and open source??

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[–] Meltrax@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I live right near it, and have a lot of friends that went there. Not a strong opinion. Fortunately for you, you'll find these two things at almost any university in the United States:

A Computer Science department that actually teaches the exact same curriculum as MIT.
An English department that will teach you how to use capitalization and punctuation in sentences.

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