Linux is probably the only operating system that all of us use every day, but only some of us actually know it.
Its creator, Linus Torvalds, first posted about his work on this new, free OS back in 1991 but said it was “just a hobby, won’t be big”. How wrong, or perhaps humble, he was.
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