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Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

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Linus Torvalds

Finnish software engineer and creator of the Linux kernel (born 1969)

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
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Linux

Family of Unix-like operating systems

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 as a Linux distribution (distro), which includes the kernel and supporting…
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