The penguin gets serious.
On January 24, 2001, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish programmer who coordinates the development of Linux—the free computer operating system developed by thousands of volunteers over the Internet—released a new version of the Linux kernel (Linux 2.4). The kernel is the software at the heart of the operat...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 358; pp. 64 - 65 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
3/10/2001
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