9. Programmingon Linux Most Linux distributions support dozens of programming languages. includes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and the GNU build system. Amongst others, GCC provides compilers for Ada, C, C++, Java, and Fortran. The Linux kernel itself is written to be compiled with GCC. Proprietary compilers for Linux include the Intel C++ Compiler, Sun Studio, and IBM XL C/C++ Compiler. BASIC is supported in such forms as Gambas, FreeBASIC, and XBasic.
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11. Components of IBM Roadrunner, theworld'sfastestsupercomputer 2008, whichruns Linux.
12. Linux distributions are thecornerstone of the LAMP server-software combination (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) which has achievedpopularityamongdevelopers, and whichisone of the more commonplatformsforwebsitehosting.