15 Most Interesting Linux Facts...
15 Most Interesting Linux Facts
Linux is one of the world’s most powerful and popular operating system. Linux operating system was developed by Linus Benedict Torvalds at the age of 21. At present there are more than 300 flavors of Linux available and one can choose between any of them depending on the kind of applications they want. If you are new to Linux read, Top 5 Advantages of Using Linux Os
Linux is a freeware and generally speaking its free from Virus and other malware infections. In this post I will share few Linux facts which may or may not be know for many of us.
· Only 2% of the current Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.
· The Linux kernel version is written in the programming language C.
· The first commercial distribution GNU / Linux was Yggdrasil was launched
Lice-CD format in 1992. Red Hat was one of the first distributions to settle
within companies and data centers in 1999.
· A guy named William Della Croce Jr. registered the name Linux
and demanded royalties for use of the mark. Later, he agreed to assign the
trademark to the true owner, who is Torvalds.
· Countries such as Russia, Brazil and Venezuela have
put their focus on Linux as a basis for interoperable management , cost
efficient and technologically independent.
· U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet, Federal Aviation
Administration uses Linux in government offices. Indian state of Tamil
Nadu uses Linux for education purpose.
· 90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers using an
operating system GNU / Linux, in fact, the top ten of supercomputers use Linux.
In fact, the penetration of Linux in data centers is very high, 33.8% of the
world runs on Linux servers compared to 7.3% does so in a Microsoft operating
system.
· The name of the penguin, Tux , is not entirely clear. On the
one hand, it is said that the origin of the name comes from the fact that
penguins appear to be wearing a tuxedo, which in English is said max tuxedo tux
and is abbreviated. In contrast, another source comes from the letters of the
logo of Tux are Unix Torvalds.
· Torvalds wanted to call the kernel Freax (a combination of
“free”, “freak”, and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like), but his
friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was hosted
for download, the download directory called kernel of Linux Torvalds.
· Debian was one of the first GNU / Linux that was constituted and
organized as a community of developers.
· Linux is present in highly critical applications such as Japan’s
bullet trains, traffic control, San Francisco, the New York Stock Exchange,
CERN, many air traffic control systems or control of nuclear reactors of
submarines and ships many nuclear war.
· Linux programmers are often associated with living “isolated” in the
world, however, over 75% of the code developed for the Linux kernel came from
private sector developers. In fact, large technology companies like Intel,
Google, IBM, AMD, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Asus, HP, Analog Devices, Oracle, Novell
or Red Hat help developing applications, contributing to the core or
pre-installing any GNU / Linux their machines. In fact, during the 2003
Super Bowl (which paralyzes the United States and remains glued to the TV
for many Americans), IBM delivered a beautiful ad talking about
Linux and open source options.
· The GNU project in 1991, had no drivers and kernel, that’s what led to
Linus Torvalds to address the Linux kernel development. If GNU had had,
perhaps, Torvalds had not been put to work on that.
· The Linux kernel is now the most widely ported operating system,
running on a great variety of operating systems.
· World known companies such as Google, Cisco, Facebook, Twitter,
Linked in etc use Linux as their main operating system.
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