The Linux revolution began in 1991 when it was a personal project of Linus Torvalds during his student life. He started this project to create a new free operating system kernel. There are plenty of operating system based in Linux kernel available in the market these days. This operating system is mostly used in server system but in recent years, there has been drastic rise in number of users using it as an alternative in desktop environment.
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Some of the popular operating system are:
- Ubuntu .
- Linux Mint.
- Arch.
- Fedora.
- Debian.
- openSUSE.
- Bodhi
- Mandriva
- Peppermint
- CentOS
- Elementary OS
- Gentoo
- Knoppix
- Zorin OS
- Manjaro