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Linux Kernel was
written by a 21 year finish college student as a part of his hobby. Yup! His
name is Linus Torvalds.
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Standard Linux
Kernel of today has over 10 Million lines of code and it grows at the rate
of10% every year. About 4500 lines of codes are added and 1500 lines of code
are changed every day. Initially in 1991, Linux kernel version 0.01 was
released with 10239 lines of code.
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A guy named
William Della Croce Jr. registered the name Linux and demanded royalty for
using its name and mark. However he agreed to handover the trademark to Linus,
later.
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90% of the
world’s most powerful supercomputers are using GNU/Linux. Top ten of
supercomputers use Linux. 33.8% of the world runs on Linux servers compared to
7.3% running Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Linux Torvalds
has been honored by naming an asteroid after his name.
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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 Software.
Awesome fact! I did not know that Avatar was done with Linux platform.
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ReplyDeleteAJ, i love this post because you are recalled more about Linus Torvalds as same as each Linux book author detailed about him but you have covered him very well short-&-sweet in this miniature.!!!
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