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- Android [r]: Linux-based open operating system software for mobile devices. [e]
- Benevolent Dictator for Life [r]: Informal and usually jovial title given to a founding leader of an open source or collaborative project. [e]
- Compiler [r]: A program that translates a human-readable instructions into machine instructions. [e]
- Computer science [r]: The study of how computers work, and the algorithms, data structures and design principles used in their operation and programming. [e]
- Computer [r]: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. [e]
- Copyleft [r]: The use of traditional copyright and intellectual property law to pursue goals of open sharing and collaboration. [e]
- Debian [r]: Free Linux distribution created in 1993 by Ian Murdock. [e]
- Dreamlinux [r]: A distribution of the Linux operating system first released in 2006. [e]
- Free software [r]: Software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction; and redistributed under these terms. [e]
- Kernel (computing) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kernel (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Linux distribution [r]: A version of Linux comprised of the Linux kernel, all or part of the GNU operating system, and assorted other software. [e]
- Linux kernel [r]: The core piece of the Linux operating system that controls processes, manages memory, and loads device drivers. [e]
- Linux naming controversy [r]: A dispute between the Free Software Foundation and various Linux-supporting groups over the naming of operating systems that are based on the Linux kernel and use GNU utilities. [e]
- Linux [r]: A free and open source operating system kernel designed by Linus Torvalds. The kernel is typically augmented by a plethora of other software, creating a Linux distribution. [e]
- Mac OS X [r]: BSD-based, POSIX-compatible graphical Unix operating system made by Apple for use on Macintosh computers. [e]
- Microsoft Windows [r]: The name of several families of closed source software operating systems, first released by Microsoft in 1985. [e]
- Monolithic versus Microkernel [r]: There are two types of kernels: monolithic, in which the kernel is one, massive program, and microkernel, which takes the approach of running a very small kernel that interacts with lots of other small programs. [e]
- Open source software [r]: Software where the source code is freely modifiable and redistributable. [e]
- Penguin [r]: Large-bodied flightless birds found from their southernmost range on Antarctica to north on the Galapagos Islands at the equator. [e]
- Portability (computing) [r]: In computing, the ability of the software being written to be easily 'translated' to run on various different hardware platforms. [e]
- Richard Stallman [r]: Software engineer and hacker who founded the GNU project and Free Software Foundation. [e]
- Tux [r]: The name of the penguin, official logo and cartoon mascot for the Linux computer operating system. [e]
- Unix [r]: A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unofficial project while they were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. [e]
- VIC-20 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows 7 [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2009. [e]
- Windows Vista [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2006. [e]
- Windows XP [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2001. [e]
