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OCR: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND FILE MANAGEMENT 201 UNIX AND LINUX Are UNIX and Linux the same? The UNIX operating system was developed in 1969 at AT&T's Bell Labs I gained poob reputation for its dependability ir multiuser environments and many versions of became available for mainframes and microcomputers. In 1991 young Finnish studen named Linus Torvalds developed the Linux (pronounced LIH nucks operating system. Linux was inspired by and loosely based on a UNIX derivative called MINIX created by Andrew Tanenbaum Linux continues to gain popularity as an operating system for personal computers, though it is not as popular for desktop applications as Windows or Mac os What are the strengths of Linux? Linux is rather unique because it is distributed along with its source code under the terms of GPL ...