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In August 2009, the CentOS team reportedly made contact with Davis and obtained the centos.info and centos.org domains. [27] In July 2010, CentOS overtook Debian to become the most popular Linux distribution for web servers, with almost 30% of all Linux web servers using it. [28] Debian retook the lead in January 2012. [29]
2009–05: Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Vista Service Pack 2: OpenBSD 4.5: Solaris 10 5/09 2009–06: iPhone OS 3: Linux 2.6.30 Fedora Linux 11 Palm webOS 1: AmigaOS 4.1 OpenSolaris 2009.06 2009–07: ReactOS 0.3.10 2009–08: Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6) Slackware 13.0: MorphOS 2.3 2009–09: iPhone OS 3.1: DragonFly BSD 2.4: Linux 2.6.31 ...
Linux distributions have also become popular in the netbook market, with many devices such as the Asus Eee PC and Acer Aspire One shipping with customized Linux distributions installed. [ 19 ] In 2009, Google announced its ChromeOS as a minimal Linux-based operating system, using the Chrome browser as the main user interface.
It is possible to install Linux onto most of these file systems. The ext file systems, namely ext2, ext3, and ext4 are based on the original Linux file system. File systems have been developed by companies to meet their specific needs, by hobbyists, or adapted from Unix , Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems.
The kernel was, however, frequently used together with other software, especially that of the GNU project. This quickly became the most popular adoption of GNU software. In June 1994 in GNU's Bulletin, Linux was referred to as a "free UNIX clone", and the Debian project began calling its product Debian GNU/Linux.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...
Most early adopters were familiar with Unix from work or school. They embraced Linux distributions for their low (or absent) cost, and the availability of the source code for most or all of their software. As of 2024, Linux has become more popular in server and embedded devices markets than in the desktop market.