Original sentence: It is one of the most famous examples of free software and of open-source development: unlike other major operating systems (such as Windows or MacOS), its underlying source code is available to the public and anyone can freely use, modify, and redistribute it.Linux is a computer operating system and its kernel
Edited sentence: A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically.But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go.I don't think it will be very successful in the long run.I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not.If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing.In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up.It has been developed mainly by volunteers.Ken Thompson, the creator of Unix and one of the most qualified people in the world on the subject of Operating System kernels said (in a 1999 interview with IEEE Computer Magazine) that he has studied the Linux kernel source code and he did not think highly of it as follows:.Linux is an operating system for personal computers.Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse.My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable.Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft—a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.Unlike other major operating systems such as Windows, its underlying source code is open and anyone is free to modify it