Intel Corp. said on Tuesday it made an undisclosed investment in VA Research Linux Systems Inc., a privately held developer of computer systems and software that run the Linux operating system.
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Linux is a version of the Unix operating system developed by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish programmer in 1991. It runs on computers running Intel processors, Compaq Computer Corp.'s Digital Alpha chips and other chip architectures. VA Research, based in Mountain View, Calif., was founded in 1993 and develops systems, servers and workstations that run the Linux operating system. A survivor's guide.