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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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Good! But this doesn't have anything todo with linux....
Would Linux's license not count as about Linux? I don't know if this is the case here but there's a lot of companies that sell hardware running Linux and refuse to follow the license, e.g. by providing source code.
If we did that then just about anything technology could be posted here...then itd jus be another general technology sub....which we have a bazillion of already haha!
edity edit, the word linux doesn't even appear anywhere on the article page....
Philosophically, no.
In set theory, also no.
Legally, still no.
Does it contain similar letters? Like Laughter and Slaughter do, yes.
Personally I'd have little interest in Linux if not for it's free software license.