Monday, December 29, 2014

Linux - AJ

·       Linux Kernel was written by a 21 year finish college student as a part of his hobby. Yup! His name is Linus Torvalds.
·       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.
·       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.
·       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.
·       Linux Torvalds has been honored by naming an asteroid after his name.
·       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.


3 comments:

  1. Awesome fact! I did not know that Avatar was done with Linux platform.

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  2. Knowledgeable, brilliant AJ and team... Keep it up!

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  3. AJ, 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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