![]() Thus the first non-proprietary operating system came into being. Torvald’s Linux kernel became a more viable alternative to the Hurd and because Torvald released it under the GNU General Public License, it became more expedient to combine it with the GNU utilities. By 1991, the GNU project had created a number of utilities but still did not have a working kernel, which was dubbed the GNU Hurd. To that end RMS founded the GNU Project and wrote the first Free (as in non-proprietary) Software license known as the GNU General Public License in 1989. MIT alumnus Richard Stallman ( RMS in hacker circles) recognized earlier on that in order for people to truly own their digital data, everything used to create that data, including the operating system and all its ancillary components, had to be non-proprietary. ![]() The GNU Project began when Torvalds was 14 years old, and 7 years before the Linux kernel was conceived. Everything you’ve ever seen on a Linux machine is an application and not Linux, yet the name has prevailed to signify the entire operating system, much to the chagrin of Richard Stallman and The GNU (Gnu’s Not Unix) Project. Linux proper is only the operating system kernel which humans don’t interact with. The kernel matured and eventually became the kernel for operating systems such as Android, ChromeOS and the desktop/server OS we refer to as Linux today. In the early 90’s a Finnish University student named Linus Torvalds started work on a Unix-like kernel after being inspired by a scaled-down Unix-like operating system named MINIX. Getting started, a brief review of how Linux was conceived and developed will help with understanding why desktop Linux security is a more difficult nut to crack than some other desktop operating systems. In this article we’ll provide some practical advice on how to do that. It needs protection as much as any other operating system. ![]() However, that does not mean you can “install and forget” about your Linux desktop. Desktop Linux security is generally considered to be fundamentally more robust than Windows. ![]()
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