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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).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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I'd disagree with that. The fact that they maintain a really good privacy respecting OS publicly available and open source is a point to me
What OS do they maintain? Linux is not an OS, but a kernel that powers many different OS's, even Android.
I mean they fund kernel development which in turn indirectly funds OS . Like, what would the OS run without a kernel
I don't think the linux foundation founds any other kernel besides linux (they found plenty of other stuff ofc). And Linux is hardly the only (production ready and stable) kernel around.
There's the BSD family, that has the most popular kernels besides Linux. I think there's also a couple more use-case specialised ones like Illumos. And there's some experimental kernels, like Hurd (I think there's a Hurd/GNU Ubuntu or Debian official distro around) or RedoxOs
How familiar are you with the Linux foundation?