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LINUX

Linux is a free computer operating system first developed and released by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Basically Linux is a form of the UNIX operating system, and is used extensively on 80x86 processor family computers, and is also available for many other CPUs. Advocates of Linux claim it to be a fast and stable operating system, and it is widely used for computer file servers, particularly on the world wide web.
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