Linux is a freely distributable version of UNIX developed primarily by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linux was further developed with the help of many UNIX
programmers and wizards across the Internet, allowing anyone with enough know-how and gumption to hack a custom UNIX kernel the ability to develop and change the system.
UNIX and its clones have long been perceived as large, resource-hungry, disk-devouring systems. Linux is not such a beast. It is small, fast, and flexible. Linux has been publicly available since around November of 1991. v0.10 went out in November of 1991, v0.11 in December of 1991.
There are very few small bugs now, and in its current state Linux is mostly useful for people who are willing to port code and write new code. Because Linux is very close to a reliable and stable system, Linus decided that v0.13 will be known as v0.95.
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