[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“In New Zealand, whose national symbol is the kiwi, another
flightless bird is starting to take off in the world of
computing.“Linux, an ‘open source’ operating system symbolised by the
penguin, was created by Linus Torvalds of Finland in the early
90s.“Basing Linux on the Unix programming language, Torvalds posted
the ‘kernel’ of the operating system on the Internet for others to
experiment on and modify on the proviso it remained free…”