Linux General - Non-Technical introduction

1. Linux-Ground
largest software development project on the planet

2. What is Linux?
Best Known
Open-Source
Most-Used as an operating system
Linux is a software which sites underneath of all of the other software on a computer. Linux-Kernel receive
request from other softwares and relay in these requests to computer hardware.

3. History
Linux was created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.Torvalds built Linux as a free and open source alternative to
Minix, another Unix clone. The source code for Linux is under copyright by its many individual authors,
and licensed under the GPLv2 license.
In many cases, a software creator may have made a linux version of the same program you use on other
operating system.for e.g skype, slack.

4. Present
There are 53,000 source files in the Linux kernel, 21 million lines of code.
There are 3,900 developers from all around the globe, 10,800 lines of code are added, 5300 lines of code
are removed and 1,800 lines of code are modified every single day in the Linux kernel.
That's the kernel alone.

5. Future
Linux is bright as a server and phone/tablet OS.
Linux will discover another important market area like everywhere.
Real exciting part of the future is uncertain and hard to predict.