Linux is one of the world’s most powerful and popular operating system.Linux Kernel was written by a 21 year college student as a part of his hobby. Yup! His name is Linus Benedict Torvalds. Linux is the operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. At present there are more than 300 flavors of Linux.
10 Most Interesting Fact About Linux:
1) Linux is not an OS, but it is the kernel, GNU Linux is the OS and it comes in several hundred flavors.
2) The first Linux kernel occupied 65 KB. His Develop by Linus Torvalds. Only 2% of the current Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.
3) Linux is favored by the tech giants as well. For the web and cloud services, Linux is the first choice to use OS in big company, like Google, Amazon and Facebook etc...
4) The majority (95.7%) of Linux is written in C language. The second popular language for Linux is Assembly language (1.8%). Total 17 language are used in linux. According to openhub.net at that time [Last Update 9, September 2017]
5) Linux kernel version 0.01 was released only 10239 lines of code. An unmodified version of the Linux kernel is called – “Vanilla Kernel”.
6) 90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers are using GNU/Linux. Top 10 of supercomputers use Linux. 33.8% of the world runs on Linux servers compared to 7.3% running Microsoft Windows OS.
7) US Defence also uses Linux extensively. The Red Hat Linux (OS) runs the nuclear submarines of the State.
8) For those who think Linux can’t do Animation – Oscar-winning visual effects of the Titanic by James Cameron came from machines with Linux and Avatar was the last movie completely developed in 3D Applications on Linux platform using FOSS.
9) In 2002, Microsoft had accumulated a $421 million cost of fighting the spread of Linux, according to The Register.
10) 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.
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10 Most Interesting Fact About Linux:
1) Linux is not an OS, but it is the kernel, GNU Linux is the OS and it comes in several hundred flavors.
2) The first Linux kernel occupied 65 KB. His Develop by Linus Torvalds. Only 2% of the current Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.
3) Linux is favored by the tech giants as well. For the web and cloud services, Linux is the first choice to use OS in big company, like Google, Amazon and Facebook etc...
4) The majority (95.7%) of Linux is written in C language. The second popular language for Linux is Assembly language (1.8%). Total 17 language are used in linux. According to openhub.net at that time [Last Update 9, September 2017]
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5) Linux kernel version 0.01 was released only 10239 lines of code. An unmodified version of the Linux kernel is called – “Vanilla Kernel”.
6) 90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers are using GNU/Linux. Top 10 of supercomputers use Linux. 33.8% of the world runs on Linux servers compared to 7.3% running Microsoft Windows OS.
7) US Defence also uses Linux extensively. The Red Hat Linux (OS) runs the nuclear submarines of the State.
8) For those who think Linux can’t do Animation – Oscar-winning visual effects of the Titanic by James Cameron came from machines with Linux and Avatar was the last movie completely developed in 3D Applications on Linux platform using FOSS.
9) In 2002, Microsoft had accumulated a $421 million cost of fighting the spread of Linux, according to The Register.
10) 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.
