Torrington Linux Users Group

10/27/2015

In 2007, Linus Torvalds and the other Linux kernel committers were adding patches to the kernel at the rate of 86 per hour, or 1.43 per minute. InformationWeek reported in 2007 that Linux, then 16 years old, was the largest sustained software project in the world.

09/12/2015

Linus Torvalds was originally going to call Linux, Freax.

08/28/2015

If you type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" into a terminal you can watch an ascii version of Star Wars Episode IV The New Hope

08/27/2015

Typing sudo before any command in linux will force it to run as the super user on the system... that is if you have the right permisssions.

08/27/2015

When Linus Torvalds uploaded Linux Kernel 0.01 to his university's ftp server it contained 10,239 lines of code and was heavily dependent on intel 386 hardware. Since then many people have contributed to the linux kernel; today the amount of the linux kernel actually written by Linus is 2%

08/24/2015

There are more than 10 Linux based Mobile operating System's. OpenZaurus, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Mobile, Mobline etc are a few apart from Android.

08/23/2015

The GNU/Linux operating system has many different distributions; in fact, there are over 300 to choose from. Here are the 10 most popular GNU/Linux distributions.

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

08/23/2015

90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers are using GNU/Linux.

Almost all supercomputers run Linux, including the ones built from Raspberry Pi boards and PlayStation 3 game consoles.