More about LINUX

 More about LINUX

In the 20 years since Linux 1.0 first appeared, the open source operating system has become one of the major winners in the enterprise data center, alongside Microsoft Windows.In 2007, Linus Torvalds and the other Linux kernel committers were adding patches to the kernel at the rate of 86 per hour, or 1.43 per minute. InformationWeek reported in 2007 that Linux, then 16 years old, was the largest sustained software project in the world. Dan Frye, an IBM VP who tracked it, then said: "No other open source project has gotten this large or moved this fast. It's a first-of-a-kind developer community."


In 1991, computer science grad student Linus Torvalds closed himself in his bedroom to create Linux. He emerged many weeks later with 10,250 lines of code for a working kernel. Although much more work needed to be done, Linux was off and running. A 1.0 production version of the kernel came out in 1994. As of December 2014, 20 years later, the Linux kernel had grown quite a bit. The 3.18 kernel contains 18,997,848 lines of code. It grew by 1 million lines over the course of six releases through 2014.