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A full GNU/Linux distribution will also include a large collection of application software (email clients, web browsers, database management systems, compilers, for example) but for the purposes of this chapter, we focus on the four components listed above.
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Holt, A., Huang, CY. (2018). Overview of GNU/Linux. In: Embedded Operating Systems. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72977-0_2
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