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# Linux
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Linux is a kernel and computing platform.
It support virtually every [filesystem](filesystems/Filesystems.md). Linux has many distributions, such as [Arch Linux](Arch%20Linux.md) or [Alpine Linux](Alpine%20Linux.md), [Proxmox](Proxmox.md), etc.
The default init system is [Systemd](Systemd.md). See [mkinitcpio](mkinitcpio.md) for other boot time configuration.
Linux has GUIs but is generally used with the [Shell](../applications/cli/Shell.md).