Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That ...

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One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free ...