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"textContent": "Those of us who have been extremely online for a very long time will remember that Linus Torvalds announced his Linux kernel to a usenet newsgroup (or “froup”, as the internet lexicon had it at the time) for the Minix operating system. Minix is a Unix-like operating system that Andrew S. Tanenbaum created to teach his class on operating systems, and that he published in the book “Operating Systems: Design & Implementation”.",
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