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Celebrate Linux birthday with the OU

 

 

 

 

 

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The Linux Operating System is 20 years old. 

A podcast series, presented by Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Open University, Blaine Price, tells the story of an extraordinary operating system that in two short decades has grown from a students’ project to the foundation of the internet. 

Linux (pronounced linn-ux) runs on everything from your wireless router and Android Smartphone to CERN's most powerful computer. 

It has championed a whole new philosophy of collaboration and freedom in the software development community.

We will hear from its users, its innovators and its originators. 

This is the story of Linux.

 

 

 
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