To create a free Unix-like kernel that other people could study and use.
The original Linux kernel was written in 1991.
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Linux supports any written language: it understands Unicode natively, so it can display the characters of any language with the appropriate locales included. As far as programming languages, Linux is written in C, but almost any language, from assembly to C to C++ to Python to Perl to .NET can be used on it.
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Some people refers to Linux-based systems as "GNU/Linux" if they use software written fr the GNU operating system.
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