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Linux
[ lin-uhksor, especially British, lin-ooks ]
- an operating system, based on UNIX, that runs on many different hardware platforms and whose source code is available to the public.
linux
/ ˈlaɪnʌks /
noun
- a nonproprietary computer operating system suitable for use on personal computers
Word History and Origins
Origin of Linux1
Example Sentences
Some Macintosh and Linux users, who were immune to the CrowdStrike-induced upheaval, devoted a portion of their morning Friday to spiking the football on Windows, even though the problem wasn’t caused by Microsoft.
Mac and Linux operating system customers were not affected, the company claimed.
Some of the most famous software systems are open source, such as Linux, the operating system that Google’s Android mobile system was built on top of.
More recently, Linux popularized open-source coding, letting programmers leverage one another’s work rather than writing everything from scratch.
Recently, while doing some routine maintenance, Mr. Freund inadvertently found a backdoor hidden in a piece of software that is part of the Linux operating system.
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