Linux

Linux definition - hacker
An operating system widely used on Internet servers and embraced by large corporations as an alternative to the Microsoft operating system software. Linux was named after a Finnish man, Linus Torvalds, who started the community development process of this UNIX-compatible operating system. Linux is also viewed as an alternative to commercial flavors of UNIX.

See Also: Internet; Operating System Software; Torvalds, Linus; UNIX.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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