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Why do CS departments use Linux/UNIX for teaching programming?

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Why do CS departments use Linux/UNIX for teaching programming?

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Linux/UNIX systems are open, free, and powerful. To study computer systems and programming, we need to get into the internals of the system and that is not possible (or very much harder) on proprietary systems such as MS/Windows.

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