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How to configure a Linux kernel\u201d by Marco Randazzo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsia.ch\/\">Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence<\/a>;<\/li><li>\u201cRole of Linux in the quest for big data\u201d by Giuseppe lo Presti, senior software engineer at CERN IT;<\/li><li>\u201cLinux for Science: Data Acquisition Systems (DAQ) and large analysis frameworks\u201d by Vallary Bhopatkar of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anl.gov\/\">Argonne National Laboratory<\/a>; and<\/li><li>\u201cAdvanced Bash scripting\u201d by Stephen Butalla of the Florida Institute of Technology.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the Unix platform, Linux was created in the early 1990s. 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