1. Torvalds created Linux based on GNU General Public License.
2. 90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers using an operating system Linux.
3. Linux is not an OS, but it is the kernel.
4. 2% of the current Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.
5. Standard Linux Kernel of today has over 10 Million lines of code.
6. Linux kernel is now the most widely ported operating system.
7. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Linked in etc use Linux as their main operating system.
8. Linux kernel’s official mascot is a penguin named Tux.
9. Linux Torvalds has been honoured by naming an astroid after his name.
10.IBM choose Linux to the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
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