Interesting Facts About Linux

GNU/Linux, inspired from UNIX, has turned into the most generally adopted server operating system 
out there. Adopters of Linux includes tech giants like, Facebook, Twitter,  Amazon, Google, and the 
list goes continues forever. The adoption rate of Linux in Desktop market can't be determined 
accurately, because, unlike proprietary software, the sources from where individuals get their 
copies are myriad and are different (henceforth getting a genuine estimate is really difficult). 
Learning and exploring things in Linux is very fascinating and exciting. Because of the diligent 
work of a large number of developers, who contribute to the development of Linux, and have 
made it achieve where it is today.

Linux powers supercomputers, bullet trains, submarines, Hollywood movies and even the New 
York Stock Exchange. Staff from significant tech organizations like Intel, IBM, HP and Google 
just as new companies help to enhance the Linux code. whether you call them interesting, here 
 Linux training in Chandigarh provides the interesting facts about linux.

"LINUX" directory name on FUNET's FTP server

Yes, you heard it right!. Linux Torvalds wanted to keep their kernel's name "freaks". Well the name 
is a combination of the words "freak" and "free", and then the last x to represents its similarity with 
the unix operating system.
When the initial code was uploaded to the FTP server (ftp://ftp.funet.fi/), then the server 
administrator (Ari Lemmke) did not like the Freax name, and he suggested the Linux name and 
gave a directory. ftp server. The directory on the FTP server was known as the "linux".

More than 90% of the current Linux source code is written by other developers

The Linux project was adopted by such huge numbers of programmers and the project became 
quickly after 1996. The first release from Torvalds is a code of 10,000 lines and now reaches 
millions in total.

Its roughly estimated that more than 10000 developers from wide range of countries and 
companies have contributed to its development till date. And are quickly expanding in 
number. More functions are added regularly daily basis. And a large portion of this coding  
is from the contributors.

Most supercomputers use Linux. And that number is increasing year by year

More than 90% of the world's fastest computer  utilization Linux. Linux has become an 
option for high-performance computing. It was just 1 to 2 percent appropriation in 1998 and 
over the most recent 15 years it grew up to more than 90 %, which is really phenomenal.

Community resources, ease of management, open source and opportunity of utilization, 
security, compatibility etc, have contributed to level of adoption in high performance computing.

There are over 10 Linux-based mobile operating systems.

Indeed that is right. Generally people think that Android is the only operating system based on 
Linux. Although there are more than 10 mobile operating systems based on Linux.

Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, OpenZaurus, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Mobile, and so on are a few apart 
from Android.

Although many are called operating systems, technically the Linux word refers to the kernel that 
sits in the core of the operating system. The first kernel occupied only 65 KB and had about 10,000 
rows of Torvalds code. In Linux 4.12 released in July 2017, there are 24,170,860 lines of code. In its 
yearly report, discharged in January 2017, the Linux Foundation announced that in excess of 13,500 
developers from 1,300 organizations have contributed since

Linux gives everything from a smartphone to a submarine. According to the Linux Foundation, the 
following runs on Linux:

• 95 percent of the top 1 million domains
• More than 80 percent of smartphones (via Android)
• More than 98% of 500 fastest supercomputers in the world
• Most of the world's markets including New York, Nasdaq, London and Tokyo Stock Exchange
• Over 75% of cloud-ready companies
• World e-commerce leaders such as Amazon, Ebay, PayPal, Walmart