Developer | Community |
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Written in | Primarily C and assembly |
OS family | Unix-like |
Working state | Current |
Source model | Mainly open source, proprietary software also available |
Initial release | 1991 |
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Marketing target | Personal computers, mobile devices, embedded devices, servers, mainframes, supercomputers |
Available in | Multilingual |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
Default user interface | Many |
License | GPLv2 and other free and open-source licenses, except for the "Linux" trademark |
Official website | {{ |
Linux or GNU/Linux is a Unix-like operating system (or family of) for computers. The Linux kernel (the basis of the operating system) is free software, meaning people can use it, see how it works, change it, or share it.
There is a lot of software for Linux and—like Linux itself—a lot of the software for Linux is free software.