Some facts about Linux
- In 2000 Steve Jobs Offered Linus Torvalds a job at APPLE on the condition that he should stop the development of Linux, But Linus refused to join and continued developing his product.
- Microsoft was very much not impressed by its open source systemswhich were criticized badly but later it was sponsored by Microsoft itself.
- Android is the highest using operating system on the planet with 2 billion people but Android runs on Linux.
- Linux is very late that it released after three years of it's announced date.
- Linux is the only operating system named after its founder Linus Torvalds
- Linux has 20,323,379 lines of code which was pretty small in the version of the kernel.
- Linux first name was “FreaX” which was a combination of “free”, “freak” and “Unix”)
- Google, Intel, Huawei, Samsung, Red Hat, Canonical and Facebookare among the top contributors to Linux kernel development in recent years.
- 9 out of top 10 public cloud infrastructures run on Linux.
- IBM chose Linux for what is expected to be the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Sequoia.
- All major closed source Operating Systems track user information while Linux distros generally don't, which means better user Security and Privacy is assured.
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