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In production and development, open source is a philosophy, [ 1 ] [ not in citation given ] [ 2 ] [ not in citation given ] or pragmatic methodology [ 2 ] [ not in citation given ] that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. [ 3 ] Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet , and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code . [ citation needed ] Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. [ 4 ] The open-source software movement was born to describe the environment that the new copyright , licensing , domain , and consumer issues created. [ citation needed ]
Alpha , ARM , AVR32 , Blackfin , C6x , ETRAX CRIS , FR-V , H8/300 , Hexagon , Itanium , M32R , m68k , Microblaze , MIPS , MN103 , OpenRISC , PA-RISC , PowerPC , s390 , S+core , SuperH , SPARC , TILE64 , Unicore32 , x86 , Xtensa Linux ( i / ˈ l ɪ n ə k s / LIN -əks [ 5 ] [ 6 ] or / ˈ l ɪ n ʊ k s / LIN -uuks ) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution.
The Linux kernel is the operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems . [ 6 ] It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software . [ 7 ] The Linux kernel is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) [ 4 ] (plus some firmware images with various non-free licenses [ citation needed ] ), and is developed by contributors worldwide. Day-to-day development discussions take place on the Linux kernel mailing list . The Linux kernel was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science student [ 8 ] Linus Torvalds in 1991.