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In 1991, a college student in Finland, wrote a free kernel and released it under the name Linux. Actually in 1991, it was not free. Initially it was released under a license which was little too restrictive and did not qualify as free. But in 1992, he changed the license and he made it free software. At that point it was possible to take this kernel and fit it into the gap in the GNU system and make a complete system. The system which is a combination of GNU and Linux. This GNU plus Linux operating system now has tens of millions of users.