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Ask Agaric: What is Linux? (No, don't ask that)

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 21, 2008 - 11:28pm
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http://www.ubuntu.net/
08:17
there-- the flavor of the month of Linux

andrea:
what is linux?

benjamin melançon 10:11
i'm going to pretend i didn't hear that

andrea:
sounds good

benjamin melançon
THE free software operating system

andrea
i still don't understand

benjamin melançon
Microsoft = Evil
Apple = Lesser Evil
Linux = Good

andrea
now you're speaking my language
it's good b/c it's free

benjamin melançon
free as in freedom
more than in price

source code is open for anyone to see and work on (like Drupal, the content management system we use to make web sites... which run on PHP, MySQL, and Apache which run on Linux ... and are all open source free software)

so no one can tell you that you can't use it (no recording industry of america suing you), or change it

wait, let's send you to the source:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html

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