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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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The only thing currently stopping me from using *nix as my main OS is the fact that my wireless card does not work with linux distros, and the graphics driver sometimes decides to commit Seppuku.
What wireless card?
It's a Realtek, don't remember the exact model, but every time I tried to make it work, it simply didn't. Manually installing the driver didn't get me much further either.
I'm not at home to check but my one system may have this, I had to add lines to hw config so it recognized the card. i can check in a few days
Yeah Realtek is a pain. I was thinking broadcom