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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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For me is less about changing the code myself and more into being able to talk with other people to solve it’s issues, in my case I’ve had reported some bugs for my distro maintainers that they not only responded but fixed it in a good matter of time, something that I can’t be sure will happen with other proprietary OS.