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On August 25, 1991, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced a new project. "I'm doing a (free) operating system," he wrote on an Internet messaging system, insisting this ...

TechRepublic has an editorial that thinks the language of Linux needs to be changed to attract more mainstream users. Language is crucial to helping new user adoption. Confusing them out of the ...