LINUX
Linux was officially introduced in 1991 by its creator Linus Torvalds, who at the time was a student at the University of Helsinki in Fuland. His creation grew in size and popularity to the extent it has today.
Point Of Interest
1. Linux is perhaps the single largest collaborative effort in the IT world today. It is now used in several computing devices from PCS in homes to handheld.
2. Three years later, in 1994, Red Hat Linux and Caldera were released. Red Hat is by far the most popular distribution of Linux Several distribution exist today.
3. There are over 300 distribution of Linux, most of them containing commonly needed applications and even games.
4. Linux was originally meant to be a UNIX clone. But Linux does not contain a single line of UNIX code the source code of the two is entirely different.
5. Most servers today run on Linux.
6. Linux is not just as OS you use at home instead of Windows – a whole range of enterprise suites are now based on the Linux platform. Form network servers to Web Servers, several places have Linux as the backbone.
7. Linux has one of the best online support available.
8. Linux mascot / Logo is a penguin.
Windows application could be run from Linux via an application called Crossover Office or through another application called WINE.
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