Linux represents future of computer systems
This past Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of one of the keystones of the modern Internet-the Linux operating system.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds first announced he was working on the operating system as a hobby in the comp.os.minix Usenet group on Aug. 25, 1991. Today, his hobby has grown into the premier operating system for Web-servers-critical to the Internet-and supercomputing clusters like Mississippi State's MAVERICK and EMPIRE computers. According to Top500.org, the authority on the world's fastest computers, 73 percent of the top 500 supercomputers run on Linux.
Properly speaking, Linux is the kernel of a family of operating system distributions that also utilize the Free Software Foundation's GNU utilities. As a result, modern distributions, or variants with different support teams and different mixes of packaged software, are often known as GNU/Linux.
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