User:Lebreton/Linux GNU

What is Linux?

 * Linux is an operatingsystem for computers.
 * Designed by Linus Torvalds in 1991
 * It is freely available for everyone and everyone is allowed to modify it. This kind of software is called Open Source.
 * Linux – also named GNU/Linux – is distributed as part of Linux-distributions, also named distro's.

GNU

 * GNU was launched in 1984 by Richard Stallman. A project aiming to create a completely free operating system for computers.
 * (Parts of) the GNU-operatingsystem are nowdays being used in the operatingsystem usualy called Linux, and to which the FSF (Free Software Foundation) reffers as GNU/Linux