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We talk in this chapter about some of the major driving forces behind Ubuntu Linux. Although it is a young operating system (OS), it has a history and a family to be proud of, because it is the heir of a tradition dating back to the late 1960s, and even before.
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© 2011 Emilio Raggi, Keir Thomas, and Sander van Vugt
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Raggi, E., Thomas, K., van Vugt, S. (2011). GNU “slash” Linux. In: Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3627-6_2
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