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...Linux is one of the great success stories of the 1990s. It was invented by a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds in 1991 as a scaled-down version of Unix, the standard operating system used in large mainframe computers. Linux caught on fast with programmers: It was fast, efficient and stable, and best of all, it was extensively customizable, so that hackers could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere...
...After 20 minutes, the sketch on the chalkboard is a full-blown blueprint of the club's ideal boarding venue, complete with solar-powered lifts, a snowboarding park, Unix terminals (to check snow conditions, of course) and hot chocolate stands every 10 feet...
Scherer also said that numerous other alternative operating systems are available, including Linux, a free Unix-like operating system that is used by millions and considered technologically superior in some aspects...
...good, in fact, that the answer doesn't appear anywhere in Jackson's findings. The truth is that there are probably more Linux programs than he realized--a lot more. The best estimate I could find was tens of thousands. Linux, after all, inherited thousands of programs written for Unix, its software progenitor, and users are constantly adding to that library, modifying here, rewriting there, publicizing some and hoarding others...
...Your login file is stored in your FAS directory and tells UNIX what to do after you type in your username and password. You can edit your login file so that all sorts of interesting things will happen before you get to the fas% prompt...