Linux

Operating Systems

Technology: Linux Applications: Run servers and devices, administer operating systems and provide infrastructure for cloud and development workloads. Licence and product scope: GPL-2.0-only for the Linux kernel, with the Linux syscall-note exception; user-space distribution packages have their own licences. Source model: OpenSource. A technology name can identify software, an open standard, a dataset or a hosted service; the scope described in the licence field controls the interpretation. Official documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ Licensing reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/COPYING Licence reference checked during the 2026-10-21 curation. Applications and learning associations are editorial descriptions; licences apply to their stated products, components and releases. Original description: Linux: operating systems technology or tool; see its documentation for details.

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Related Careers: Systems Administrator, IT Support Specialist

Related Sectors: Information Technology, Cloud Computing