Features or Linux or Why Linux is so popular?

History of UNIX :

It started in 1964 in New Jersey when some people of Bell Labs tried to create a multiuser operating system (OS), they worked on it till 1969, after facing lots of failures they withdraw the project. Then a group of five people including Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson successfully created an operating system called UNICS(Uniplexed Information and Computing Service), better known as UNIX. They publish this OS as open-source(free to use and edit the codebase)....

Why Linux was created?

Linus Torvalds is the creator of the Linux kernel. In simple words, Linus Torvald created Linux because he didn’t have money to buy UNIX. He was a student at the *University of Helsinki*. In early 1991 he decided to do a project on UNIX, but free versions of UNIX were too old and other commercials are too costly ($5000). So he thought of creating his own OS....

After Linux developed!

So finally Linux was released on  September 17, 1991. Linus made it open source. Between 1991 to 1995, Richard Stallman started a movement called the “Free Software Movement“, and created the GNU project (collection of free software)....

Features or Linux or Why Linux is so popular?

Linux is so much popular that most IT companies ask their candidates that “Do they have knowledge or experience of Linux-based OS?”.  Some points are mentioned below of the reason behind why it’s so popular / Features :...