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Choosing Free Software and Linux for Computer Use - Essay and Term Paper
A New Trend in Computer Operating Systems
In the early nineties, a new computer operating system for personal computers was born. It was not crafted by a huge software company, but by a student who longed to recreate his university’s computer experience on his own computer. Unbeknownst at the time, this new operating system would become one of the biggest trends in the computing world in under a decade. It would revolutionize the spread of the Internet and become the choice of business for mission critical computer software systems.
In 1991, a Finnish research student at the University of Helsinki named Linus Torvalds wanted to recreate the Unix computer environment on his own personal computer. He had been using a commercial version of Unix called Minix through out his studies. Unix is a computer operating system. It allows the user to interact with hardware, software, and data on a computer. At that time, Unix was often used on......
Total Word Count: 2183
Page Count: 8.7 (250 words a page / double spaced)
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