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On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever. Happy Birthday, #Linux kernel. image
Grandma's 15 years old computer: We're not supporting Windows 11 on your computer cuz- Grandma: Ubuntu Linux it is.
Do you want to determine which Debian Linux version is Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 LTS based on? Type the following: cat /etc/debian_version image
If a webpage or blog requires JavaScript to render properly, I will not use it. You can keep your precious page to yourself.
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01: Linux kernel is often mentioned as a overwhelmingly large open source software. As of this writing, the latest version is v6.5-rc5, which consists of 36M lines of code. However, the first version of Linux, v0.01 was pretty small. It consisted of only 10239 lines of code. Excluding comments and blank lines, it was only 8,670 lines. It's small enough to understand and is a good starting point to learn about the internals
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