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ELI5: What the heck is linux?
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No, no one needs to post the embarrassing speech where stallman tries to ride linus' coat-tails.
He's not totally wrong to be bugged about it. He basically is the father of modern free software, and by extension all the non-kernel components of a typical Linux machine, but the setup ended up named after another guy and an obsolete thing from Bell labs.