It didn't. When created, it was never expected to become a popular and fairly mainstream system. Linux wasn't used commercially until the design had already matured considerably.
Linux is completely free and open source. Usually people or companies generate revenues using Donations from various contributors. But companies like Red Hat linux, they make a profit by selling their support and services to their customers.
The Linux Professional Institute is a professional organisation for those who are Linux Professionals. It is a non-for-profit organisation that provides independent professional certification.
They can't make profit from their products because 80% of the Linux distributions don't sell it. Linux distribution take volunteers that want to do it because they love programming and problem solving, and the volunteers don't do it for cash, they do it for fun, but although some money is made by donations and ads on their site.
Fedora and openSUSE are the open-community spin-offs of privately managed and developed for-profit GNU/Linux distributions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Edition Linux.
As a general purpose operating system, you can do almost anything on Linux. People use Linux from everything from web design to movie production to playing games to hosting a website to controlling robots.
Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system. It derives much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s.
Any mid-range desktop or laptop would be suitable for use with Linux and have enough power for web design. Dells, Acers, and ASUS laptops tend to have high compatibility with Linux (I would not get an ASUS Eee PC for web design, as it is slow and has a low resolution).
Linux strictly speaking is a kernel used in many different operating systems. The simple answer is "the linux kernel" but that's not entirely correct, depending on whether the question is about Linux the kernel, or the often misused label "linux" meant to refer to any one of several hundred operating systems that run over the linux kernel. In my opinion, the defining component, the dominant trait, of linux is the modular design of the kernel. It need only be as big and complex as required, making it very small and simple, or a monolithic giant that can do anything, or anywhere in between.
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If the fashion company uses or works with documents created with Adobe, Apple, or Windows-specific products, then chances are Linux will not be a good fit for the company. Otherwise, there are plenty of design and art applications for fashion designers, photographers, and artists alike on many Linux distributions.
It's neither. Linux is its own family of operating systems. It is modeled after Unix and shares many design goals, but it is not completely inter-operable. Also, to be legally called a "version of Unix", an operating system must go through a rigorous and expensive certification test, which no Linux distro has currently done. No. Linux is not an *anything* Unix.
GNU/Linux, and the BSD descendants follow design and operation principles largely similar to UNIX.