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Linux is a free, open-source Unix-like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991, now developed by thousands of contributors worldwide under the Linux Foundation. Combined with GNU userland tools, it forms GNU/Linux — the OS powering approximately 96% of the world's top 1 million web servers, 100% of the top 500 supercomputers, Android smartphones (2.5 billion+ devices), and the vast majority of cloud computing infrastructure.
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