Project: Linux Description

Name Linux Official site http://www.linux.org Download from http://www.linux.org License GPL FAQ http://www.linux.org/faq.html Description Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management and TCP/IP networking. Development Status Very active. Some big names are behind it so expect a lot from this OS.