2. A brief history of linux
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1970 → unix
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In 1983 Rechard stallman started GNU project
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In 1991 linus torvalds wrote first linux kernel
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Rechard stallman
10. Five big names that use Linux
on their desktops
Google
Perhaps the best-known major company to use Linux on the desktop is Google,
which provides the Goobuntu OS for staff to use.
11. NASA
"We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system
was stable and reliable - one that would give us in-house control.
So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,"
12. U.S. Department of Defense
The City of Munich, Germany:
The city of Munich, Germany has "chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops
to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating
according to a 2005 ZD Net report. The distribution Munich chose was Debian
13. French Gendarmerie
Like Munich, the French gendarmerie - France's military police force - has spent almost
a decade switching to Linux and open-source software.
The migration project, due to complete this year, will see the force migrate 72,000 PCs f
Windows XP to GendBuntu, the organisation's version of the Ubuntu LTS distro.
CERN
Researchers at CERN rely on more than 3,000 desktops running a customised version
Scientific Linux, a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu or CERN CentOS 7