Abstract | ||
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Developed by Torvalds in 1991 from Minix, a simplified version of Unix intended for educational use, Linux has grown from a mere 10000-line kernel to a full-featured OS with more than 1.5 million lines of code. Once thought the exclusive province of hobbyists, students, and hard-core programmers, Linux has quietly, unassumingly slipped into the software mainstream. The paper discusses the advantages of Linux and considers massively parallel software development. It also discusses open source development |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1998 | 10.1109/52.714831 | IEEE Software |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Unix,operating systems (computers),software engineering,Linux,Minix,Unix,education,massively parallel software development,open source development,operating system,software future | Linux Unified Key Setup,Open system (computing),GNU/Linux,Software engineering,Computer science,Unix,Single UNIX Specification,Minimalism (computing),Operating system,Unix architecture,Linux kernel | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
15 | 5 | 0740-7459 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
10 | 3.46 | 0 |
Authors | ||
1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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James Sanders | 1 | 10 | 4.81 |