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MozillaQuest: The Many Faces of Linux

“There are many faces of Linux, a term which has come to mean
many things. Underneath all the things that Linux is, it is an
operating system kernel.

“The term Linux also is applied to the popular GNU operating
system (OS) built on top of the Linux kernel, often simply called
the Linux OS. Then on top of that are the Linux-based distributions
that usually and simply are called Linux distributions, such as
Mandriva Linux, Red Hat Linux, or SUSE Linux…”

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