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3 pages in length. Linux was created in 1991 by Linus Benedict Torvalds, a twenty-one-year-old Finn who was attending the University of Helsinki. His self-taught talent of hacking served him well by affording him the deep understanding of how and why computers operate the way they do; from this knowledge was born an operating system that rivaled what had heretofore not been applicable to professional demands. The closest system was MINIX, however, it was severely limited in its professional application due to its instructional nature; because professionals already had the training, they required a more sophisticated system for industry use. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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computers operate the way they do; from this knowledge was born an operating system that rivaled what had heretofore not been applicable to professional demands. The closest system was
MINIX, however, it was severely limited in its professional application due to its instructional nature; because professionals already had the training, they required a more sophisticated system for industry use.
Once Linux version 0.01 was released, "enthusiasm gathered around this new kid on the block, and codes were downloaded, tested, tweaked, and returned to Linus" (Hasan, 1999). Soon
a version 0.02 came out followed almost immediately by 0.03 and 0.10. Development has not slowed down since then. "And work went on. Soon more than a hundred
people joined the Linux camp. Then thousands. Then hundreds of thousands. This was no longer a hackers toy. Powered by a plethora of programs from the
GNU project, Linux was ready for the actual showdown...Soon, commercial vendors moved in" (Hasan, 1999). Linux, which is "making great headway into
the NOS arena" (Bernstein, 2000), is up to version 7.11 as of May, 2003, which was released by Norways Opera Software. The latest version is packed full of valuable
features to give users that much better of a networking experience, not the least of which is a built-in e-mail client. The significance of this feature is that it
far surpasses past versions that only offered an integrated e-mail client; now however, this "state of the art" (Live, 2003) upgrade allows users the ease of automatic categorizing and sorting,
benefit of an integrated spam filter, as well as the ability to support POP3, IMAP and ESMTP. Other new and highly "user-friendly" (Live, 2003) include FastForward and Rewind; Slideshow;
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