
ten by others. So Linux became the natural next step in the evolution of Unix
or, perhaps more accurately, the next big leap for Unix.
Like Unix, Linux has its share of developers who helped it along in the
early stages of its technical development. But whereas the number of Unix
developers at its peak numbered in the thousands, the number of Linux devel
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opers today is in the millions. Talk about extreme Unix! It is this massive scale
of development that virtually guarantees that Unix’s descendant Linux will be
a system to contend with for a long time to come.
A new wrinkle that Linux brought to the Unix world is the idea that
so-called “open source” ...