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What Is Linux Kernel?

So Linux is 25 years old now. The Linux kernel was created by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds in 1991 who at the time was a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland . On 25 August 1991, Torvalds posted the following to comp.os.minix, a newsgroup on Usenet.

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