Linux the fledgling operating system; code licensed under the GNU GPL can be reused in other computer programs as long as they also are released under the same or a compatible license. Torvalds initiated a switch from his original license, which prohibited commercial redistribution, to the GNU GPL. Developers worked to integrate GNU components with the Linux kernel, making a fully functional and free operating system. Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention "Freax", a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, some of the project's makefiles
GEOS (8-bit operating system) fully reverse-engineered and rewritten as C for the cc65 compiler suite. The reverse-engineered source code has been made available at Github. Dozens of official and third-party applications and other products were produced for GEOS. Among the most important and popular were the following: GEOS (8-bit operating system) GEOS ("Graphic Environment Operating System") is a discontinued operating system from Berkeley Softworks (later GeoWorks). Originally designed for the Commodore 64 and released in 1986, it provides a graphical user interface for this popular 8-bit computer. GEOS closely resembles early versions of the classic Mac OS and includes a graphical word processor (geoWrite)