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What is Linux?—and does it work?

Part of a special section on the battle between Microsoft Windows and Linux for control of the Chinese computer operating system market. Linux is an operating system that provides the tools and rules that are used by word-processors, spreadsheets, and other software applications to create, save, ret...

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Published in:Far Eastern Economic Review Vol. 163; no. 8; pp. 10 - 11
Main Author: Goad, G. Pierre
Format: Article
Published: Review Publishing Company Ltd. February 24 2000
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